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HOW TO SURVIVE THE PLAGUE

1 Consign yourself to quarantine

Houses in which anyone fell sick of plague were ordered to be shut up, marked with a red cross and “Lord Have Mercy Upon Us”, and watched so that no one entered or left for four weeks, to prevent the spread

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