widely-increased

Updated: May 21, 2025

At certain hours of the day such of the clergy as were not scared away through fear of infection, or who were not otherwise occupied amongst the sick, would come in and address the persons gathered there, or read the daily office of prayer; but although at first these services had been well attended people flocking to the churches as though to take sanctuary there the widely-increased mortality and the fearful spread of the distemper had caused a panic throughout the city.

Evelyn Everett-Green - The Sign of the Red Cross