An Authentick Account of the Measures and Precautions Used at Venice: By the Magistrate of the Office of Health, for the Preservation of Publick HealthAnonymous
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An Authentick Account of the Measures and Precautions Used at Venice: By the Magistrate of the Office of Health, for the Preservation of Publick Health
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Plague -- Italy -- Venice; Public health administration -- Italy -- Venice; Public health laws -- Italy -- Venice
The Ship being entirely unloaded, they proceed to dispose the Goods in
proper Places, with the necessary Distinctions: The Wool, (which is to
be purified with the Forms called _à Monte_) in one Place, and what it
is lapt up in, in another; the Cottons all in one Line; these made with
Thread (or Linnens) in another; the Skins for Leather in another Part;
and so every Head of Merchandize, separated from others, of different
Sorts; and when all is thus disposed, every Thing is opened, and from
that Day commences the Time of Quarantine; which always consists
regularly of Forty entire Days, for Merchandizes coming from the
_Levant_, and so for any others coming from Places much suspected; which
is increased upon the Death, or Sickness, of any one of the _Bastazis_,
which should give any Suspicion of Infection; or if any Thing of that
Kind appeared on the Ship, which had transported them. Thus from the very
Day that the Unloading of the Ship terminates, the Quarantine of the
Ship, and of the Crew, commences, and not otherwise.
That of the Passengers being sooner brought to a Conclusion, who, at
first, pass into the _Lazarettos_ with their own Wearing Apparel, as they
by so doing gain the Time the Unloading of the Ship requires.
There are the most solid Reasons for this Proceeding; since, that as the
Office of Health is to be secure, that every Thing liable to Expurgation
passes through those Tryals which Reason and Experience, for so long a
Space of Time have established; so this Point is not to be confounded.
The Evil manifests itself more easily in Persons than Things; so that
they might be subjected to less rigorous Rules than the Goods: Yet as
there is no Person, but what brings with him some Things that are for
his own Use; or is at least mixed with those that do; so the Suspicions
becoming equal on this Head, the Purification required must be equal too.
These different Terms are therefore to be diligently considered: That in
which the Unloading of the Ships ends; and that in which is compleated
the Transportation of the Goods to the _Lazaretto_. Since it is not
sufficient that they are gone through, if it is not manifested that they
are so.
For this Reason, as soon as the Passengers are brought ashore, the
Guardian appointed for the Charge of them, causes to be opened all their
Chests, strong Boxes, Envelops, and whatever they have with them; of all
which he takes a Note, which is called _making the Roll_. He then orders
all to be exposed to the Air, if Wearing Apparel, and not Merchandize.
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