Historical fiction; London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction; Plague -- Fiction
That precise order be taken that the searchers, chirurgeons,
keepers, and buriers, are not to pass the streets without holding a
red rod or wand of three foot in length in their hands, open and
evident to be seen; and are not to go into any other house than
into their own, or into that whereunto they are directed or sent
for, but to forbear and abstain from company, especially when they
have been lately used[84] in any such business or attendance.
_Inmates._
That where several inmates are in one and the same house, and any
person in that house happens to be infected, no other person or
family of such house shall be suffered to remove him or themselves
without a certificate from the examiners of the health of that
parish; or, in default thereof, the house whither she or they
remove shall be shut up as is in case of visitation.
_Hackney Coaches._
That care be taken of hackney coachmen, that they may not, as some
of them have been observed to do after carrying of infected persons
to the pesthouse and other places, be admitted to common use till
their coaches be well aired, and have stood unemployed by the space
of five or six days after such service.
ORDERS FOR CLEANSING AND KEEPING OF THE STREETS SWEPT.
_The Streets to be kept Clean._
First, it is thought necessary, and so ordered, that every
householder do cause the street to be daily prepared before his
door, and so to keep it clean swept all the week long.
_That Rakers take it from out the Houses._
That the sweeping and filth of houses be daily carried away by the
rakers, and that the raker shall give notice of his coming by the
blowing of a horn, as hitherto hath been done.
_Laystalls_[85] _to be made far off from the City._
That the laystalls be removed as far as may be out of the city and
common passages, and that no nightman or other be suffered to empty
a vault into any vault or garden near about the city.
_Care to be had of Unwholesome Fish or Flesh, and of Musty Corn._
That special care be taken that no stinking fish, or unwholesome
flesh, or musty corn, or other corrupt fruits, of what sort soever,
be suffered to be sold about the city or any part of the same.
That the brewers and tippling-houses be looked unto for musty and
unwholesome casks.
That no hogs, dogs, or cats, or tame pigeons, or conies, be
suffered to be kept within any part of the city, or any swine to be
or stray in the streets or lanes, but that such swine be impounded
by the beadle[86] or any other officer, and the owner punished
according to the act of common council; and that the dogs be killed
by the dog killers appointed for that purpose.
ORDERS CONCERNING LOOSE PERSONS AND IDLE ASSEMBLIES.
_Beggars._
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