Compléter The Great PlagueVersion en ligne Put the words in the right box. par Gianni Gijsels 1 taken believed started are had dreaded condemning brought died distinguished sealed sent spread affected gives perished fled disturbed sung omitted kept left died began buried appeared It in London in the poor , overcrowded parish of St . Giles - in - the - Field . It slowly at first but by May of 1665 , 43 . In June 6137 people , in July 17036 people and at its peak in August , 31159 people died . In all , 15% of the population during that terrible summer . Incubation took a mere four to six days and when the plague in a household , the house was , thus the whole family to death ! These houses were by a painted red cross on the door and the words , 'Lord have mercy on us' . At night the corpses were out in answer to the cry , ' Bring out your dead' , put in a cart and away to the plague pits . One called the Great Pit was at Aldgate in London and another at Finsbury Fields . The King , Charles II and his Court London and to Oxford . Those people who could their families away from London during these months , but the poor had no recourse but to stay . In his diary , Samuel Pepys a vivid account of the empty streets in London , as all who could had left in an attempt to flee the pestilence . It was that holding a posy of flowers to the nose away the plague and to this day judges are still given a nose - gay to carry on ceremonial occasions as a protection against the plague ! A song about the plague is still by children . 'Ring - a - ring of roses' describes in great detail the symptoms of the plague and ends with 'All fall down' . The last word , 'dead' , is today . The plague to many parts of England . York was one city badly . The plague victims were outside the city walls and it is said that they have never been since then , as a precaution against a resurgence of the plague . The grassy embankments below the city walls the sites of these plague pits .