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"Searching for her," was the prompt reply. "Where?" "Through the streets; in the pest-houses, and at the plague-pit." "How did you find out she lived here?" "I did not find it out. When I became convinced she was in none of the places I have mentioned, I gave up the search in despair, for to-night, and was returning to his lordship to report my ill success."
Day before yesterday seventy, yesterday eighty-six deaths, and among them two of my colleagues." "And no prospect of improvement?" "To-morrow the ninety will become a hundred the one hundred will become two, three, four, five, until at last one individual will be left, for whom there will be no grave-digger." "The pest-houses are closed, and we still have cattle and horses."
"War does bring out heroism. So does pestilence and famine. Read Defoe's account of the Plague of London. How men and women left their safe homes, to serve in the pest-houses, knowing that sooner or later they were doomed.
There is an Epistle Dedicatory to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, very senile in its syntax and punctuation, and containing this touching appeal: "I have lived among you almost a jubilee, and seen your great care and provision to keep the city free from infection, in the shutting up the sick and in carrying them to your pest-houses, in setting warders to keep the whole from the sick, in making of fires and perfuming the streets, in resorting to your churches, in pouring out your prayers to Almighty God, with fasting and alms, to be propitious to you.
Fry's labors, they were far better than in previous years. Some attempts had been made to render these pest-houses less horrible; but for lack of wise, intelligent management, and occupation for the prisoners, the wards still presented pictures of Pandemonium.
Day before yesterday seventy, yesterday eighty-six deaths, and among them two of my colleagues." "And no prospect of improvement?" "To-morrow the ninety will become a hundred the one hundred will become two, three, four, five, until at last one individual will be left, for whom there will be no grave-digger." "The pest-houses are closed, and we still have cattle and horses."
Many of them courted acquaintance with the Quakeress who hesitated not to plunge into gloomy prison-cells, nor to penetrate pest-houses decimated with jail fever, in pursuance of her mission. And while they courted her acquaintance, they fervently wished her "God speed." Two or three communications, still in existence, prove that Hannah More and Maria Edgeworth were of the number of good wishers.
Sutherland says: "The hospitals at Scutari were magnificent buildings, apparently admirably adapted to their purpose; but, when carefully examined, they were found to be little better than pest-houses." Under direction of the Sanitary Commission, the hospitals were cleansed and ventilated, and the patients allowed more room.
But he could not blind himself to the fact that in Finsbury-fields, as well as in the open country to the north of Holborn, plague-pits had been digged and pest-houses erected; and this consideration threw such a gloom over the prospect, that, in order to dispel the effect, he changed the scene by looking towards the west.
All who could do so had long ago fled from the devoted city; and London lay under the burning heat of the June sunshine, stricken for its sins by the hand of God. The pest-houses were full, so were the plague-pits, where the dead were hurled in cartfuls; and no one knew who rose up in health in the morning but that they might be lying stark and dead in a few hours.
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