NEAR to our several Ports, there should be _Lazaretto's_ built in convenient Places, on little Islands, if it can so be, for the Reception both of Men and Goods, which arrive from Places suspected of _Infection_: The keeping Men in _Quarantaine_ on board the Ship being not sufficient; the only use of which is to observe whether any die among them. For _Infection_ may be preserved so long in Clothes, in which it is once lodged, that as much, nay more of it, if Sickness continues in the Ship, may be brought on Shore at the end than at the beginning of the forty Days: Unless a new _Quarantaine_ be begun every time any Person dies; which might not end, but with the Destruction of the whole Ship's Crew. IF there has been any _contagious_ Distemper in the Ship; the _sound_ Men should leave their Clothes, which should be sunk in the Sea, the Men washed and shaved, and having fresh Clothes, should stay in the _Lazaretto_ thirty or forty Days. The reason of this is, because Persons may be recovered from a Disease themselves, and yet retain _Matter_ of _Infection_ about them a considerable time: as we frequently see the _Small-Pox_ taken from those, who have several Days before passed through the Distemper. THE _Sick_, if there be any, should be kept in Houses remote from the _Sound_, and, some time after they are well, should also be washed and shaved, and have fresh Clothes; whatever they wore while sick being sunk or buryed: And then being removed to the Houses of the _Sound_, should continue there thirty or forty Days.