Solomon Eagle continued his midnight courses through the streets; but he could no longer find an audience as before.

Those who listened to him only laughed at his denunciations of a new judgment, and told him his preachings and prophesyings were now completely out of date.
By this time numbers of those who had quitted London having returned to it, the streets began to resume their wonted appearance.

The utmost care was taken by the authorities to cleanse and purify the houses, in order to remove all chance of keeping alive the infection.

Every room in every habitation where a person had died of the plague--and there were few that had escaped the visitation--was ordered to be whitewashed, and the strongest fumigations were employed to remove the pestilential effluvia.
Brimstone, resin, and pitch were burnt in the houses of the poor; benjamin, myrrh, and other more expensive perfumes in those of the rich; while vast quantities of powder were consumed in creating blasts to carry off the foul air.

Large and constant fires were kept in all the houses, and several were burnt down in consequence of the negligence of their owners.
All goods, clothes, and bedding, capable of harbouring infection, were condemned to be publicly burned, and vast bonfires were lighted in Finsbury Fields and elsewhere, into which many hundred cart-loads of such articles were thrown.