_Notice to be given of the Sickness._
The master of every house, as soon as any one in his house
complaineth either of botch, or purple, or swelling in any part of
his body, or falleth otherwise dangerously sick without apparent
cause of some other disease, shall give notice thereof to the
examiner of health, within two hours after the said sign shall
appear.
_Sequestration of the Sick._
As soon as any man shall be found by this examiner, chirurgeon, or
searcher, to be sick of the plague, he shall the same night be
sequestered in the same house; and in case he be so sequestered,
then, though he die not, the house wherein he sickened shall be
shut up for a month after the use of the due preservatives taken by
the rest.
_Airing the Stuff._
For sequestration of the goods and stuff of the infection, their
bedding and apparel, and hangings of chambers, must be well aired
with fire, and such perfumes as are requisite, within the infected
house, before they be taken again to use. This to be done by the
appointment of the examiner.
_Shutting up of the House._
If any person shall visit any man known to be infected of the
plague, or entereth willingly into any known infected house, being
not allowed, the house wherein he inhabiteth shall be shut up for
certain days by the examiner's direction.
_None to be removed out of Infected Houses, but, etc._
Item, That none be removed out of the house where he falleth sick
of the infection into any other house in the city (except it be to
the pesthouse or a tent, or unto some such house which the owner of
the said house holdeth in his own hands, and occupieth by his own
servants), and so as security be given to the said parish whither
such remove is made, that the attendance and charge about the said
visited persons shall be observed and charged in all the
particularities before expressed, without any cost of that parish
to which any such remove shall happen to be made, and this remove
to be done by night. And it shall be lawful to any person that hath
two houses to remove either his sound or his infected people to his
spare house at his choice, so as, if he send away first his sound,
he do not after send thither the sick; nor again unto the sick, the
sound; and that the same which he sendeth be for one week at the
least shut up, and secluded from company, for the fear of some
infection at first not appearing.
_Burial of the Dead._
That the burial of the dead by this visitation be at most
convenient hours, always before sunrising, or after sunsetting,
with the privity[80] of the churchwardens, or constable, and not
otherwise; and that no neighbors nor friends be suffered to
accompany the corpse to church, or to enter the house visited, upon
pain of having his house shut up, or be imprisoned.
And that no corpse dying of the infection shall be buried, or
remain in any church, in time of common prayer, sermon, or lecture.
And that no children be suffered, at time of burial of any corpse,
in any church, churchyard, or burying place, to come near the
corpse, coffin, or grave; and that all graves shall be at least six
feet deep.
And further, all public assemblies at other burials are to be
forborne during the continuance of this visitation.
_No Infected Stuff to be uttered._[81]
That no clothes, stuff, bedding, or garments, be suffered to be
carried or conveyed out of any infected houses, and that the criers
and carriers abroad of bedding or old apparel to be sold or pawned
be utterly prohibited and restrained, and no brokers of bedding or
old apparel be permitted to make any public show, or hang forth on
their stalls, shop boards, or windows towards any street, lane,
common way, or passage, any old bedding or apparel to be sold, upon
pain of imprisonment. And if any broker or other person shall buy
any bedding, apparel, or other stuff out of any infected house,
within two months after the infection hath been there, his house
shall be shut up as infected, and so shall continue shut up twenty
days at the least.
_No Person to be conveyed out of any Infected House._
If any person visited[82] do fortune,[83] by negligent looking
unto, or by any other means, to come or be conveyed from a place
infected to any other place, the parish from whence such party hath
come, or been conveyed, upon notice thereof given, shall, at their
charge, cause the said party so visited and escaped to be carried
and brought back again by night; and the parties in this case
offending to be punished at the direction of the alderman of the
ward, and the house of the receiver of such visited person to be
shut up for twenty days.
_Every Visited House to be marked._
That every house visited be marked with a red cross of a foot long,
in the middle of the door, evident to be seen, and with these usual
printed words, that is to say, "Lord have mercy upon us," to be set
close over the same cross, there to continue until lawful opening
of the same house.
_Every Visited House to be watched._
That the constables see every house shut up, and to be attended
with watchmen, which may keep in, and minister necessaries to them
at their own charges, if they be able, or at the common charge if
they be unable. The shutting up to be for the space of four weeks
after all be whole.
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.