A Journal of the Plague Year, Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London

by Daniel Defoe

I went up Holborn, and there the street was full of people, but they walked in the middle of the great street, neither on one side or other, because, as I suppose, they would not mingle with anybody that came out of houses, or meet with smells and scent from houses that might be infected.

1660 styled social distancing