The Plague Mortality Quotes

Moreover, the epidemic seemed to be on the wane; on some days only ten or so deaths were notified. Then, all of a sudden, the figure shot up again, vertically. On the day when the death-roll touched thirty, Dr. Rieux read an official telegram that the Prefect had just handed him, remarking: "So they’ve got alarmed at last." The telegram ran: Proclaim a state of plague stop close the town. (1.8.99)

From now on, it can be said that plague was the concern of all of us. (2.1.1)

But the gaunt, idle cranes on the wharves, rip—carts lying on their sides, neglected heaps of sacks and barrels—all testified that commerce, too, had died of plague. (2.2.1)