Black Death Pandemic Research Paper

The Black Death pandemic had affected almost everyone who lived in that time, everyone wanted to know if there was a cure. People of that time were constantly dreading the idea that it was Gods' punishment. The plague entered south-western England in the summer of 1348 and it stuck Bristol with shocking numbers. Bristol was the second largest city in Britain and was the principal port of entry for the west country. Within it lived upwards of 10,000 souls, tightly packed together in conditions that were not altogether sanitary. The foul conditions was as true of Bristol as it was in any other medieveal town, if not more so because its size of population. People had the tendency to pore their chamberpots ,which was a bowl that people used as

a restroom at night, out of the window in to the streets. Farm animals that were supposed to have been grazed outside of the city walls but were often allowed to roam freely in the city walls in search of food. Townsfolk drew their water from the river, which was contaminanted by indrustrial waste. Due to these condition. The plague reached London, in London there was a mass grave that had been uncovered at Spitalfields containing remains of the victims from the Black Death. London was overwhelmed by the death rate increasing day after day, the city was overflowing with concomitant problems do to the poor sanitation. The King of that time remonstrated to the town concil about the state that the streets had been in and the council replied that all the street cleaners have died of the plague. In London 1350, the plague had already killed between one third and one half of the population. The plague grew in mass moreso over time and it spread to Durham, Scotland, Wales and to Ireland. in Britain