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
This being done, he gives an Account of it to the _Prior_, who is always
present; and the first registers in a Book, as well the Persons come
into Quarantine, as their Things; as also the Names of the Guardians
appointed to have them in Charge. He then writes to the Magistrate,
specifying the Day of their Debarkation, the very Moment in which
they began to open the Chests and expose the Things to the Air; and
he transmits the Roll or List aforesaid, in which is contained every
Thing that requires Expurgation. If any Merchandizes are discovered
in them, the Quarantine of the Passengers cannot commence, till those
Merchandizes have been transported to another Place; there to go through
all the Precautions and Tryals proper for them: And if no Merchandize has
been found, their Quarantine commences from the Time of the Search as
aforesaid. The same Person sends also another List of all the Merchandize
received separately for Expurgation, nothing excepted; which denotes
the Arrival of such Goods; their Quality; the Place they come from; the
Vessel they were landed out of; the _Fante_ who conducted them; the
Time when the Unloading was begun and ended; and precisely that of the
Merchandize being opened; and from thence is calculated the Term for
Quarantine. In this Roll he is also obliged expresly to add, that he has
had them lightly singed, or sprinkled, and entirely cleansed; and that
he has afterwards diligently made the proper Examination about all the
_Peatas_, which served for the Transportation of the Goods; that no Doubt
may remain, that any Thing may have been left: And he is obliged to make
it appear, whether the _Peatas_ arrived towards Night at the _Lazarettos_
(at which Time it is rigorously forbid, as is before said, to open any
one of the Gates of them;) and if the Guardian and _Bastazi_ have exerted
the proper Vigilance about them, as they are obliged by the Laws to do.
Besides, the Roll that the Guardian himself sends, (who remains aboard
the Ship after the Unloading is compleated) consists of many Articles;
one is, to discover, if the Captain has deposed, at his Examination, and
given, in his Manifest, every Thing contained in the Ship. Another is, to
have certain Knowledge, that every Thing, that was contained in it, has
passed to the Place of Purification; which appears by its being compared
with that of the _Prior_.
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