Special hospitals for both children and adults are created bey a religious order operating in Vienna, the Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity, during the 1679 epidemic.

The basic nursing care offered in the hospitals is simple, but is generally a vast improvement over other medical and public health measures in the city.

Doctors treat patients by using emetics, bloodletting, and by applying noxious ointments.

The corpses of plague victims are carted to the outer edges of the city and placed in large open pits for burning.

However, the pits are exposed to the open air for several days until they are nearly full, allowing ongoing infection of the rat population.