Show London's Great Plague The Tho of September is the tha anal ersary of or an occurrence of year rears ago ago In in tho the year which i Is recalled re rr called In London as the time ending ot or the We week In which the great plague plague- reached its greatest destructiveness ondon Condon at that time had dad little more I than double the population ot of bull Indi ana polis yet the number of death from the plague c in the week ending the of September Is given rn n ns as up up- ward of It was calculated that the plague that began hegan in m the April and continued until late in 1 December De tho 0 cember had more t than vIe vIe- tams tims Meanwhile as Defoe says innis in m nis Itis narrative It is true people used mod all alt possible precautions When any IllY anyone one bought hought a joint ot of meat in the market he would not take it it out ot of the rile Butchers butcher S hand but took look it off the himself On the other hand nand time the the butcher could not touch the I mon money y but had l it P pu l in a not full of ot vinegar he kept for that purpose 1 The rhe buyer lUver carried always always- small mont money to make make makeup up any odd sum that C he hey might take no change They earned carried of oi scents and ami perfumes in 10 their lands and l al all means that could be used were employed e But then he rime i noon floor could not even do these things and they went at all an |