An authentick account of the measures and precautions used at Venice / by the Magistrate of the Office of Health, for the preservation of the publick health.

Date:
1752
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An authentick account of the measures and precautions used at Venice / by the Magistrate of the Office of Health, for the preservation of the publick health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Merchants concerned, that they may be fecure of their Regu¬ larity. But the Magiftrate requires they fhould be knowing Perfons, and there is a Guardian appointed them, to take Care that the Purifications are exad, and that Intereft does not oc- cafion any Breach of the Rules. They have their Neceffaries and daily Pay from the Merchants, and they are the Perfons who are moft diligently examined; for, from the Effects which are difcovered on them, may be known what there is to fear: Tis not however in the Bread: of the Merchants to appoint a greater or lefs Number of thefe3 but the Laws have provided, that each Baftazo is to ferve for fo many Bales as he can ma¬ nage carefully in a Day. The Tranfporting Goods to the Lazaretti has been men¬ tioned, the fame is to be underftood of Perfons, who are there wi:h their Things to perform the Quarantine, and prove their be¬ ing in Health under the Care of another Guardian; it being fel- dom allowed (and that only to fome poor Wretch) to perform Quarantine in the Ship, for fear the Things worn or wearable fhould not be fufficiently purified. ’Tis to be obferved, that every Veflel having on Board Goods and Paflengers, mufl have three Guardians 3 one for the Ship, one for the Goods, and one for the Pafiengers, together with the Help of fo many other Officers as may feem a heavy Expence: But if it be confidered that this is borne by the Goods, and that they are fold in the Country, it will appear how much Care is taken of the Pub- lick Safety, which is preferred to every other Confideration. But all thefe Precautions are to be compleated in the La¬ zarettos, fo called from the original Intention of them for the Recovery of Perfons fick of the Plague, but worthy now a better
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