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re: Diseases and causes of death - one week in London - 1665
Posted on 11/8/22 at 9:51 am to Boondock Saint
Posted on 11/8/22 at 9:51 am to Boondock Saint
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How exactly does one die of "teeth"?
Apparently, they were babies who had not completed teething.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/01/bill-of-mortality-document-shows-death-toll-during-the-great-plague-of-london.html
"deaths were categorized according to their ages, rather than according to the diseases that might have killed them. “Chrisomes” (15 dead) were infants younger than a month old; “teeth” (113 dead) were babies not yet through with teething."
Posted on 11/8/22 at 9:51 am to Boondock Saint
This was at the time of the Great Plague of London. There are some interesting tidbits found on wiki about the misrecording of deaths.
And on the conditions of the city:
And everyone’s favorite, quarantine:
LINK
quote:
Graunt recorded the incompetence of the Searchers at identifying true causes of death, remarking on the frequent recording of 'consumption' rather than other diseases which were recognized then by physicians. He suggested a cup of ale and a doubling of their fee to two groats rather than one was sufficient for Searchers to change the cause of death to one more convenient for the householders. No one wished to be known as having had a death by plague in their household, and Parish Clerks, too, connived in covering up cases of plague in their official returns.
And on the conditions of the city:
quote:
n the poorer parts of the city, filled with overcrowded tenements and garrets, hygiene was impossible to maintain. There was no sanitation, and open drains flowed along the centre of winding streets. The cobbles were slippery with animal droppings, rubbish and the slops thrown out of the houses; they were muddy and buzzing with flies in summer, and awash with sewage in winter. The City Corporation employed "rakers" to remove the worst of the filth, and it was transported to mounds outside the walls, where it accumulated and continued to decompose. The stench was overwhelming, and people walked around with handkerchiefs or nosegays pressed against their nostrils
And everyone’s favorite, quarantine:
quote:
As plague spread, a system of quarantine was introduced, whereby any house where someone had died from plague would be locked up and no one allowed to enter or leave for 40 days. This frequently led to the deaths of the other inhabitants, by neglect if not from the plague, and provided ample incentive not to report the disease. The official returns record 68,596 cases of plague, but a reasonable estimate suggests this figure is 30,000 short of the true total.[24] A plague house was marked with a red cross on the door with the words "Lord have mercy upon us", and a watchman stood guard outside
LINK
Posted on 11/8/22 at 9:52 am to Boondock Saint
Tuberculosis in third place
This post was edited on 11/8/22 at 9:53 am
Posted on 11/8/22 at 9:52 am to Boondock Saint
That bullshite they pulled with the "s" that might as well be an "f" still pisses me off. It was reason enough on it's own to leave that joint and eventually go to war.
This post was edited on 11/8/22 at 9:53 am
Posted on 11/8/22 at 9:53 am to Boondock Saint
quote:have you not noticed your average British bloke’s dental hygiene? Now imagine it aboot tree fiddy years ago
How exactly does one die of "teeth"?
Posted on 11/8/22 at 10:01 am to SuperSaint
I really don't want to get the Kingsevil.
Posted on 11/8/22 at 10:04 am to Boondock Saint
I would hate it if my death certificate said I died of the Purples.
Posted on 11/8/22 at 10:05 am to TigerCoon
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I died of the Purples.
So that's how they ID'd the gays back then.
Posted on 11/8/22 at 10:20 am to Boondock Saint
Interesting that they noted where the drowning deaths happened. I wonder why.
Posted on 11/8/22 at 10:23 am to Tbonepatron
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Interesting that they noted where the drowning deaths happened. I wonder why.
Segregration
Posted on 11/8/22 at 10:28 am to Boondock Saint
The one who was marked as having died suddenly was the lucky one. I’d much rather drop of a heart attack than suffer with 95% of these other causes.
Posted on 11/8/22 at 10:30 am to Boondock Saint
Ah, the times before “Clintons” was a cause of death.
Posted on 11/8/22 at 10:38 am to Northshoretiger87
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Looks like 3 people died from “truth.”
That says Thrush.
Posted on 11/8/22 at 11:02 am to beerJeep
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Abscess without antibiotics sounds painful
Reminds me of the ice skating shoe in Cast Away.
Ouch.
Posted on 11/8/22 at 11:36 am to Boondock Saint
Feaver.
Wonder how the one "frighted" casualty happened.
Wonder how the one "frighted" casualty happened.
Posted on 11/8/22 at 11:45 am to i am dan
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Wonder how the one "frighted" casualty happened.
Kathy Griffin’s ancestor showed up at their door.
Posted on 11/8/22 at 12:01 pm to Boondock Saint
Griping of the guts sounds like the runs/ diarrhea where serious enough one could die of dehydration. Remember you would not want to drink the water of 17th century London.
Dysentery and cholera were major killers. This was before microscopes and the discovery of bacteria and viruses.
Best to live way out in the country during that time.
Dysentery and cholera were major killers. This was before microscopes and the discovery of bacteria and viruses.
Best to live way out in the country during that time.
Posted on 11/8/22 at 12:10 pm to Boondock Saint
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This post was edited on 11/22/22 at 10:15 am
Posted on 11/8/22 at 12:13 pm to Boondock Saint
Only 1 was scared to death
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