Jen’s Reviews > A Journal of the Plague Year > Status Update

This is a fascinating book to be reading now. The biggest surprise so far is that people in the 1600's dealt with plague pretty much the way we are dealing with it now - there were quarantines, the rich left town, everyone else had to decide whether to risk getting sick by running businesses, the city kept tallies of deaths and assigned physicians to help the poor, and doctors risked their lives treating people.