ENGLAND IN 17th CENTURY
In the England of 1060-79—with oneAfteenth part of it lakes, stagnant| water, and moist places, the chill damp i of marsh fever everywhere; houses of.] mud or wood, small*, dirty, ill-venti-lated, the floors cpvered with foul-! smelling rushes or straw; the streets unpaved and with open gutters; the food scanty (little varied, with few vegetables and much salted meat); smallpox, marsh fever, scurvy and leprosy prevalent—the death-rate was 80 per 1000; by 1681-90 it had fallen to 42.1 par 1000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 224, 22 September 1938, Page 20
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