| Description Of Item | From the collection of William Cullen. Written by the physicians of the Faculty of Physic in the University of Edinburgh. Draft copy. Divided into 24 sections with the following margin headings: the two parts of administration; the observing of quarantines; quarantines to be more exactly conducted; a new law necessary for what relates to the plague; the quarantine of persons to be shortened; twenty days may be sufficient; benefit of shortening the quarantine of persons; the quarantine of goods; ventilation and purification - more is necessary than length of time; the due degree of ventilation; orders are wanting for purification or burning where necessary; the goods to be taken out of all ships while under quarantine; the government of the city to be secured; the magistrates and Town Council must remain in Town; a number of soldiers necessary; how best provided; a Council of Health to be entrusted with discretionary powers; proper members of the Council of Health; vivres (food) to be provided by the publick (sic); the bringing of provisions to be rendered safe for the people of the country; fewel (sic) to be provided by the publick (sic); butchers bakers etc must continue their employment; how their commerce may be rendered safe; unnecessary horses to sent out of the city; dogs and cats to be sent out of the city or killed; persons to be allowed and encouraged to leave the city; the advantages of evacuating the city; the furniture of deserted houses to be removed and laed [sic] up in a place of safety; families may avoid the disease by shutting themselves up in their own houses; proveditors (men and women to fetch provisions for people shut in their homes) necessary; all assemblies and crowds of peoople to be avoided; of the shutting up of shops; the management of open shops; the management of factories; the employment of idle persons; the commerce of old cloaths (sic) and furniture to be interrupted; the city to be kept clean; the management of the infected; infected families not to be shut up; every infected person not to be sent to a hospital; the mischiefs that have formerly arisen from hospitals; tents and huts in the fields can not easily be employed; infirmaries to be provided with separate apartments; the inconveniences of ordinary hospitals avoided; how a sufficient number of empty houses may be provided; how hospitals best adapted to the plague; infirmaries for persons under fever; hospitals for those who have plague sores; the safety of the latter hospitals; proper places for the hospitals; private houses not hurt by being employed as infirmaries; hospitals for persons of different ranks; servants and the poor to be forced into hospitals; the rich may have occasions for hospitals; lazerettos (maritime quarantine stations) necessary; dwelling houses the most proper for lazerettos; the furniture of hospitals; beds - how to be provided; bed linen not necessary; blankets how to be provided; flannel sheets necessary; hospital beds to be without curtains; old linen necessary how to be provided; the distribution of physicians and surgeons; the distribution of nurses; what persons to be especially employed about the sick; burying ground; buryers (sic) their safety to be provided for; the cleaning and purifying cloaths (sic) and furniture; goods to be burnt at the publick (sic) expense; announcing the plague. 22 pages. |