These mortality reports have enabled historians and researchers alike to estimate the living conditions and influence of grave diseases like the bubonic plague on the given population.
[4] Searchers were not trained for their jobs most times, and their duties posed serious personal health risks to those involved due to the frequent possibility of encountering forms of contagion.
[3] Searchers were required to live outside of common areas, to practice indoors, and to hold white sticks indicating their dangerous professions they were when in public spaces.
Wages for searchers were typically earned per body, indicating that the women in this profession received a greater income during seasons of major epidemics than slower times.
Widow Hubble, who was also a midwife, of St. Antholin Budge Row, was especially regarded by the parish and ultimately established a rental agreement for a house that was owned by the church.