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A53403 Orders conceived and published by the Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, concerning the infection of the plague City of London (England). Court of Aldermen.; City of London (England). Lord Mayor. 1665 (1665) Wing O397; ESTC R39821 5,594 15

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ORDERS CONCEIVED AND PUBLISHED By The Lord MAJOR and Aldermen of the City of LONDON concerning the Infection of the Plague Printed by James Flesher Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON ORDERS Conceived and published by the Lord MAJOR and Aldermen of the City of London concerning the infection of the Plague WHereas in the first Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign King James of happy memory an Act was made for the charitable relief and ordering of Persons infected with the Plague whereby Authority was given to Justices of Peace Majors Bayliffs and other Head-Officers to appoint within their several Limits Examiners Searchers Watchmen Keepers and Buriers for the Persons and Places infected and to minister unto them Oaths for the performance of their Offices And the same Statute did also authorize the giving of other Directions as unto them for the present necessity should seem good in their discretions It is now upon special consideration thought very expedient for preventing and avoiding of infection of Sickness if it shall so please Almighty God that these Officers following be appointed and these Orders hereafter duly observed Examiners to be appointed in every Parish FIrst It is thought requisite and so ordered that in every Parish there be one two or more persons of good sort and credit chosen and appointed by the Alderman his Deputy and Common-Councel of every Ward by the name of Examiners to continue in that Office the space of two Moneths at least And if any fit Person so appointed shall refuse to undertake the same the said parties so refusing to be committed to Prison until they shall conform themselves accordingly The Examiners Office THat these Examiners be sworn by the Alderman to enquire and learn from time to time what Houses in every Parish be visited and what persons be sick and of what Diseases as near as they can inform themselves and upon doubt in that case to command restraint of access until it appear what the Disease shall prove And if they finde any person sick of the Infection to give order to the Constable that the House be shut up and if the Constable shall be found remiss or negligent to give present notice thereof to the Alderman of the Ward Watchmen THat to every Infected House there be appointed two Watchmen one for the Day and the other for the Night And that these Watchmen have a special care that no person goe in or out of such infected Houses whereof they have the Charge upon pain of severe punishment And the said Watchmen to doe such further Offices as the sick House shall need and require And if the Watchman be sent upon any business to lock up the House and take the Key with him and the Watchman by day to attend until ten of the clock at night and the Watchman by night until six in the morning Searchers THat there be a special care to appoint Women-Searchers in every Parish such as are of honest reputation and of the best sort as can be got in this kind And these to be sworn to make due search and true report to the utmost of their knowledge whether the Persons whose bodies they are appointed to Search do die of the Infection or of what other Diseases as near as they can And that the Physicians who shall be appointed for cure and prevention of the Infection do call before them the said Searchers who are or shall be appointed for the several Parishes under their respective Cares to the end they may consider whether they are fitly qualified for that employment and charge them from time to time as they shall see cause if they appear defective in their duties That no Searcher during this time of Visitation be permitted to use any publick work or imployment or keep any Shop or Stall or be imployed as a Landress or in any other common imployment whatsoever Chirurgions FOR better assistance of the Searchers for as much as there hath been heretofore great abuse in misreporting the Disease to the further spreading of the Infection It is therefore ordered that there be chosen and appointed able and discreet Chirurgions besides those that doe already belong to the Pest-house amongst whom the City and Liberties to be quartered as the places lie most apt and convenient and every of these to have one quarter for his Limit and the said Chirurgions in every of their Limits to joyn with the Searchers for the view of the body to the end there may be a true report made of the Disease And further that the said Chirurgions shall visit and search such like persons as shall either send for them or be named and directed unto them by the examiners of every Parish and inform themselves of the Disease of the said parties And for as much as the said Chirurgions are to be sequestred from all other Cures and kept onely to this Disease of the Infection It is ordered that every of the said Chirurgions shall have twelve-pence a Body searched by them to be paid out of the goods of the party searched if he be able or otherwise by the Parish Nurse-keepers IF any Nurse-keeper shall remove herself out of any infected House before 28 daies after the decease 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 28 daies 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 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 knowledge thereof to the Examiner of Health within two hours after the said sign shall appear Sequestration of the Sick AS soon as any man shall be found by this Examiner Chirurgion or Searcher to be sick of the Plague he shall the same night be sequestred in the same house And in case he be so sequestred then though he afterwards die not the House wherein he sickned shall be shut up for a Moneth after the use of 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 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 entred willingly into any known Infected House being not allowed the House wherein he inhabiteth shall be shut up for certain daies by the Examiners direction None to be removed out of Infected Houses but c. 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