In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, killing nearly 100,000 people. The London municipal government issued a decree to control the development of the epidemic. Its primary task was to ensure adequate food supply for residents, in order to stabilize social order. If a large number of deaths were caused by food shortage, it was likely to lead to riots and insurrections. Therefore, the government had established a relatively mature food supply system by regulating the market to stabilize prices, ensuring various food supply channels and arranging food delivery persons to deliver food. Merchants and people also took various measures to help each other to ensure food supplies, so that fewer people died of famine in the Great Plague of London in 1665. The epidemic prevention measures taken by the London government and residents at both the food supply and consumption end have effectively solved the food shortage caused by the outbreak of the epidemic and quickly stabilized the public sentiment, which provides a reference for countries under the epidemic to further improve their national governance mechanism and response mechanism to large public health emergencies.

Yuying Che. A Study on Food Supply during the Great Plague of London in 1665. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2022), Vol. 4, Issue 2: 1-5. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2022.040201.

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