Stuart London September 1665 he wrote ""I have stayed in the city till above 7400 died in one week, and of them about 6000 of the plague, and little noise heard day or night but tolling of bells." " The Great Plague was immediately followed by another catastrophe, albeit one which helped to put an end to the plague. On the Sunday, 2 September 1666 the Great Fire of London broke out at one o'clock in the morning at a house in Pudding Lane in the southern part of the City. Fanned by an eastern wind the fire spread, and efforts to
Life and Labour of the People in London appeared 1902-3. A noteworthy feature of the study was the production of maps describing poverty ("see illustration on the right"). Levels of wealth and poverty found by the research's investigators being mapped out on a street by street basis. The notebooks used to carry out this investigation are held at the Archives Division of the British Library of Political and Economic Science (London School of Economics and Political Science). Life and Labour of the People in London Life and Labour of the People in London was a multi-volume book by Charles Booth which provided a survey of the lives and