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6. Such as have wells or pumpes, every morning by six and every evening
after eight a clocke, shall cause ten bucketts full to run into the
streets.
7. Every evening at that hour the streets and channells to be made
cleane, the water not swept out of the channell, nor the streets
overwett but sprinkled, etc.
8. The houses infected and things in them to be aired in the xxviii days
and no clothes or things about the infected persons to be given awaie or
sold but either destroyed or sufficientlie purified.
9. Owners of houses infected with their familie, may within the month
depart to any their houses in the countrye, or to any other house in the
Cyttye without being shut up, so that they abstain from returning to the
Cyttye, or from going abroad out of house in the Cyttye, for a month.
10. None shall keep dogg or bitche abroad unled nor within howling or
disturbing of their neighbours.
11. To have no assembly at funeral dynners or usual meeting in houses
infected.
12. None shall for a month come into infected houses but such as be of
the house and licensed to do service abroad.
13. No donghills out of stables, Bearhouses or other places to be made
in the strete.
14. To have double time of Restraint for consenting to pull down bills,
and the taker awaie to suffer imprisonement for viii. days.
TWO VIEWERS OF DEAD BODIES,
TWO VIEWERS OF SICK SUSPECTED,
Shall be appointed and sworne.
These viewers to report to the Constable, he to the Clarke, and he to
the chief of Clarkes, all upon pain of imprisonment. A pain of standing
on the pillorye for false reports by the viewers. A loss of pension to
such as shall refuse.
MENDINGE OF PAVEMENTS.
That diligent care be had, that pavements be amended where nede is, and
that principall paviers be appointed to survey the wants of paving,
especiallie in Channels, and that the dwellers against such may be
forced to amend them.
INTERLUDES AND PLAIES.
If the increase of the sicknes be feared, that Interludes and plaies be
restrained within the libertyes of the Cyttye.
PHISICIONS AND SURGEONS.
That skilful and learned physicions and surgeons may be provided to
minister to the sicke.
VAGRANT, MASTERLESS, AND POORE PEOPLE.
1. That all such as be diseased be sent to St. Thomas or St. Bartylmewes
hospitall, there to be first cured and made cleane, and afterwards those
which be not of the Cyttye to be sent awaie according to the statute in
that case provided, and the other to be sett to worke, in such trades as
are least used by the Inhabitants of the Cyttye, for the avoyding[73] of
all such vagrant persons, as well children male and female, soldiers
lame and maymed, as other idle and loytering persons that swarme in the
streets and wander up and downe begging, to the great daunger and
infecting of the Cyttye for th’increase of the plague and annoyance to
the same.
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