f any infected house
before twenty-eight days 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 twenty-eight days
shall 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 notice 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, 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 die not, the house wherein he sickened shall be
shut up 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 infection, 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 visit any man known to be infected of the
plague, or entereth willingly into any known infected house, being
not allowed, the house wherein he inhabiteth shall be shut up for
certain days by the examiner's direction.
_None to be removed out of Infected Houses, but, etc._
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
the pesthouse or a tent, or unto some such house which the owner of
the said house holdeth in his own hands, and occupieth by his own
servants), and so as security be given to the said parish whither
such remove is made, that the attendance and charge about the said
visited persons shall be observed and charged in all the
particularities before expressed, without any cost of that parish
to which any such remove shall happen to be made, and
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