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Abstract

The plague commissioners again discovered the opposite: that rats penetrated stone and brick houses, even those with cement floors, inflicting some of the highest rates of death in these residences, whereas often some of the poorest people, living in bamboo huts, fared much better.

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Title
THE BLACK DEATH 1346-1353: THE COMPLETE HISTORY
Author
Cohn, Samuel K, Jr, PhD
Pages
1054-1055
Section
Book Review
Publication year
2005
Publication date
Mar 10, 2005
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
ISSN
00284793
e-ISSN
15334406
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
223934599
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.