... epidemic, but people obviously thought that such precautions were not yet necessary within the city. Part of the reason for this was the localisation of the plague deaths. In its early stages the outbreak was centred in St.Giles-in-the-fields, a comparatively large parish of 1500 households almost on the edge of the built up area of the West of the city where suspected cases had been noted towards the end of 1664. Steps were taken to close houses where victims had been identified but St. Giles still continued to be the worst afflicted area with the highest concentration of burials for plague victims. In an attempt to isolate the plague there, on 21 June the Privy Council directed the officers of the adjoining parishes to set warders on the streets and other passageways from St. Giles, to stop those suspected of coming from infected houses or districts as well as other ...

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