Учитывая, что возбудитель чумы был определен только в районе 20 века, что подразумевалось под чумой в 1665 году, пока остается загадкой. Что-то, от чего люди мерли пачками. И не факт, что это инфекция.
Об аналогичном документе за другую неделю того же года:
...In addition to the immense toll of the plague, this document shows the high rate of infant mortality. The youngest Londoners died so often, historian Lynda Payne writes, that their deaths were categorized according to their ages, rather than according to the diseases that might have killed them. “Chrisomes” (15 dead) were infants younger than a month old; “teeth” (113 dead) were babies not yet through with teething..
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...In addition to the immense toll of the plague, this document shows the high rate of infant mortality. The youngest Londoners died so often, historian Lynda Payne writes, that their deaths were categorized according to their ages, rather than according to the diseases that might have killed them. “Chrisomes” (15 dead) were infants younger than a month old; “teeth” (113 dead) were babies not yet through with teething..
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/01/22/bill_of_mortality_document_shows_death_toll_during_the_great_plague_of_london.html
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