Appendix V. to the second report on quarantine : report of Dr. W.H. Burrell on the plague of Malta in 1813.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health
Date:
1854
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Credit: Appendix V. to the second report on quarantine : report of Dr. W.H. Burrell on the plague of Malta in 1813. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    2nd August—All 2^ermits, whether to town or country, to cease. Tliat the proclamation of the ] 7th July authorizing per- sons to go out to market between the hours of 6 and 10 in the morning he annulled, and that no inhahitant of Yaleita or Floriana, with the exception above provided for, shall he at liberty to go abroad into the street, tvithout subjecting himself to the most prompt and rigorous punishment aivarded by the laivs of quarantine. 4th Jugnst.—That the inhabitants of each district be in- \'ited to form themselves into a giiard for the maintenance of good order, cleanliness, and the strict observance of quaran- tine. loth August.— No person to shoot or go out in the pursuit of game under the severest penalties. Vlth August.—Antonio Borg shot for having been discovered concealing the pestilential disease with whicli he was affected. 22}icZ August.—Considering the number of hands required for the cotton harvest, prohibits every one, under the severest penalty, from gathering it, but orders it to be consumed by the cattle. 25th August—That all the cotton of this year is to be con- dered an infected article. August.—Population prohibited buying fruit at the barriers. \Oth September.—Cordons of troops ordered to surround tlie casals of Zebbug, Birchircara, and Curmi. Uh October.—Congratulates the inhabitants on the declension of the disease. (.39) P