[Mr Ramsbotham]

I’m not too sure I buy this assessment. People found in a mass grave were quite likely to have been of the poorer classes, and consequently have been more likely to be malnourished and live huddled together in squalid places where rats and fleas proliferated. Plague is a disease that overwhelms the immune system, and even good physical health is not much help once you’ve been infected.

[bannie]

The wealthy were also better able to escape the over-populated areas—which was where the rats congregated.

[wafflehouse]

i highly recommend this book:



Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

mass graves were not an indication of financial status as the plague went on