The plague

[15goddess15]

how many people aprox. died of the bubonic plague in london every month?
thanks

[JK2]

In 1563, in London alone, over 20,000 people died of the disease. This particular epidemic claimed between a quarter and a third of the total Elizabethan London population. Statistics show that 1000 people died weekly in mid August, 1600 per week in September, and 1800 per week in October

I got the above info from this site:

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/bubonic-bl ack-plague-elizabethan-era.htm

[Octavius]

It depends to which occurrence you refer.

The Great Plague occurred in 1665-1666 in England and killed between 75,000 to 100,000 people, up to a fifth of London's population. The 1665-1666 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier "Black Death", a virulent outbreak of disease in Europe between 1347 and 1353 (London 1348), but was remembered afterwards as the "great" plague because it was one of the last widespread outbreaks in Europe.

Records state that deaths in London crept up to 1,000 persons per week, then 2000 persons per week and, by September 1665, to 7,000 persons per week. By late autumn, the death toll began to slow until, in February 1666, it was considered safe enough for the King Charles II and his entourage to return to the city. By this time, however, trade with the European continent had spread this outbreak of plague to France, where it died out the following winter.

In the previous occurrence (JK2's response aside), the plague reached London in autumn 1348. According to the contemporary Robert of Avesbury:

'The pestilence arrived in London at about the feast of All Saints [1st Nov] and daily deprived many of life. It grew so powerful that between Candlemass and Easter [2nd Feb-12th April] more than 200 corpses were buried almost every day in the new burial ground made next to Smithfield, and this was in addition to the bodies buried in other graveyards in the city.'

[jno]

historians aren't absolutely sure the Black Death was bubonic plague (some say it might have been anthrax, I think), and there's no real consensus on how many people it killed - maybe a third of Europe's population, which is a huge number, far worse than the London plague and far more widespread.