He told them to pray to him everyday.
no because the plague with not killing so many people
i think they used blind puppies to 'stop' the plague Cats - once they were reestablished (they had been outlawed as "witches' familiars"), since cats kill rats and rats spread the Plague.
They did not know that plague was spread by vermin, so the did not kill off anything.
Because there was a shortage of money.
To stop war
They didn't. They thought that if they punished themselves enough, God might take the Plague away, but of course, it didn't work.
Budget cuts
The small number of cases of plague that occur today are treated with antibiotics.There was no cure for it the only treatment was for them to be quarentined so they could stop the spread.
In medieval times (when the black plague was at it's fiercest people did not understand that the black plague was caught from fleas but thought it was an illness from Lucifer/satin/the devil. The medieval people thought the sickness would stop being contagious after the bodies were burnt. Unfortunately for them the fleas had fled the body long before it was burnt thus creating more sickness and death.
The Greeks finally understood Trojans were stalking them by their giant horse.
The great fire of london
With precautions and prevention. Cleaning cities and burning rats.