i'm searching for fiction, set in historical times, when big pandemics were decimating populations, like black plague, cholera etc. When people got sick because they didn't have plumbing and sanitation or refridgeration, and no access to doctors. What they did to cope.

i loved this book, and am looking for more of similar historical setting Year of Wonders

sounds gruesome i guess, but i am fascinated by how people survived, in these conditions. Makes me feel so grateful to be living in the period of history, that is now.
Gigi, I loved Edward Rutherford's 'London', if you want a good historical account in a novel-like manner. Very long, but a good, accurate read.