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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    It has been faid, that generally the Clerk of the Ship, or the Super-Cargo, or always one of the Ship, pafles with the Merchandize to the Lazaretto, to make the Delivery of them; and the Reafon of it is, to take back a Receipt from the Bajiazi for all that was delivered to them, that the Whole may be reftored, out of Regard to the Rules of the Health- Office, and for the Sake of Punctuality. The Ship being entirely unloaded, they proceed to difpofe the Goods in proper Places, with the neceffiary DiftinCtions: The Wool, (which is to be purified with the Forms called a Monte) in one Place, and what it is lapt up in, in another ; the Cottons all in one Line ; thefe made with Thread (or Linnens) in another j the Skins for Leather in another Part; and fo every Head of Merchandize, feparated from others, of dif¬ ferent Sorts; and when all is thus difpofed, every Thing is opened, and from that Day commences the Time of Quaran¬ tine ; which always confifts regularly of Forty entire Days, for Merchandizes coming from the Levant, and fo for any others coming from Places much fufpe&ed ; which is increafed upon the Death, or Sicknefs, of any one of the Baflazis, which fhould give any Sufpicion of Infection ; or if any Thing of that Kind appeared on the Ship, which had tranfported them. Thus from the very Day that the Unloading of the Ship ter¬ minates, the Quarantine of the Ship, and of the Crew, com¬ mences, and not otherwife. That of the Paflengers being fooner brought to a Conclufion, who, at firfl, pafs into the Lazarettos with their own Wearing Apparel, as they by fo doing gain the Time the Unloading of the Ship requires. There
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