History of the Great Plague in London; A Journal of the Plague Year Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Publick as Private Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of any person dying of the infection, the house to which the said nurse-keeper doth so remove herself shall be shut up until the said twenty-eight days be expired. ORDERS CONCERNING INFECTED HOUSES AND PERSONS SICK OF THE PLAGUE. Notice to be given of the Sickness. The master of every house, as soon as any one in his S house complaineth either of botch, or purple, or swelling, in any part of his body, or falleth otherwise dangerously sick without apparent cause of some other disease, shall give notice thereof to the examiner of health, within two hours after the said sign shall appear. Sequestration of the Sick. 10 As soon as any man shall be found by this examiner, chirurgeon, or searcher, to be sick of the plague, he shall the same night be sequestered in the same house; and in case he be so sequestered, then, though he afterwards die not, the house wherein he sickened shall be shut up 15 for a month, after the use of the due preservatives taken by the rest. Airing the Stuff. For sequestration of the goods and stuff of the infected, their bedding, and apparel, and hangings of chambers, must be well aired with fire, and such perfumes as are 20 requisite, within the infected house, before they be taken again to use: this to be done by the appointment of the examiner. Shutting up of the House. If any person shall have visited any man known to be infected of the plague, or entered willingly into any known 25 infected house, being not allowed, the house wherein chapter{Section 4he inhabiteth shall be shut up for certain days by the examiner's direction. None to be removed out of Infected Houses, but, Ore. Item, That none be removed out of the house where he falleth sick of the infection, into any other house in the City (except it be to ...