Contents.

Page no.

1. Introduction. 2
2. What was the Great Plague and where did it come from? 3
3. What methods were used by doctors to try and cure the plague and how did the people of England try to prevent the Great Plague of 1665? 7
4. What did they do with the dead bodies? 12
5. What are the effects of the Great plague of today? 14
6. Bibliography. 16
1. Introduction:

The plague has been on the earth for a very long time. It was in China over three thousand ago. The disease killed the populations of many cities across the world. In the middle ages the plague was spread by fleas from black rats. The disease killed half the population of London in just one year. In 1894 the cause of the plague was finally discovered by a Swiss scientist, Yersin. He discovered the disease was caused by a rod shaped bacterium and named it after himself, calling...