How People Died in 16th Century London
Not Just the Tudors
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The Role of Searchers in the Prevention of Plague
Elderly women who do a lot of nursing and nursekeeping are used to attending on the sick. It's also old women who lay out the dead before burial usually. So it's kind of quid pro quo. We need somebody to inspect the dead. We'll give you a pension and a payment if you do so. And for all the complaints in the middle, their diagnosis is as likely to be accurate as anything. I think that the searches are really pretty good as recorders of what was going on.
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