If the miller died and the sickens was in his home, then the miller family passed away also, this left none to mill the grain, therefore towns were in need of help.
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According to Marchione di Coppo Stefani (1370-1380) people looked to the doctors and the clergy for answers and advice, neither had the answers nor the cure. .
" In the year of the Lord 1348 the was a great pestilence in the city of Florence. It was of such fury and so tempestuous that in houses, which it took, holds previously healthy servants who took care of the ill died of the same illness. Almost none of the ill survived the fourth day. Neither physicians nor medicines were effective. Whether because these illnesses were previously unknown or because physician had not previously studied them, there seemed to be no cure."(Coppo, rubric 643, the Florentine chronicle).
Melissa Snell (1998-2001) said that the symptoms started with a headache, then chills and fever set in and in days the swelling of the lymph glands began to swell. This is because the bacteria attacked the glands and eventually according to Knox (page 5) they would eventually burst causing great pain then death. The flea transmitted the bacterium, when the insect would bit the host, the flea would then regurgitate the bacteria into the wound thus passing it to the person. Snell states that the glands located in the groin, armpits and neck would turn black, giving the Black Death its name, after bursting the area would ooze with puss and blood, the victim would being to bleed internally, the blood would puddle under the sick causing black spots to appear all over the body. Blood also showed in the person urine and stool. The death was swift yet extremely pain full.It was possible for the victim to pass the pneumonic plague to the healthy by sneezing the bacteria, thus infecting the person's lungs. This form was seen less but yet more common than the Septicemic plague this form infested the victims" blood stream, .