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The plague originated in Eastern Asia and spread through Eastern Europe and in May 1710 reached Riga. Soldiers brought it to Sweden. To Älmeboda the plague may have come via Karlskrona and the first deceased were found in November 1710. There
was a prohibition from the authorities to go from areas contaminated by the plague and fumigation with juniper, and tar was
prescribed. That was considered to clean the air. Unfortunately there was no knowledge of how the plague spread, nowadays it is thought that it was bubonic plague, which is only spread by fleabites and cannot be transferred from one human to another.
How many people, who died from the plague in Älmeboda is not really known, the book over funerals had no registrations for some years. Magnus Megalinus only recorded that from November 1710 till 1712 many people died from the plague, of whom the vicar did not receive any name, and that there were people not buried by the vicar. It was strongly forbidden to
take corps to the cemetary. The funerals had to take place on special cemetaries for those who died from the plague, and these had been arranged in different places in the parish. Many funerals, however, took place in clandestine within the walls of the cemetary. No one wanted to risk the blessedness of somebody in using the special plague cemetaries.
There is notes about 400 people being dead from the plague, which means that on third of the population of the parish got lost.
Reference: A. Neander, Älmedalsboken, 1969 (The book about Älmedal)