| Description Of Item | From the collection of William Cullen. Written by the physicians of the Faculty of Physic in the University of Edinburgh. Fair copy. Divided into 24 sections with the following margin headings: the two parts of administration; the observing of quarantines; quarantines to be more exactly performed; 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 necessary than length of time; more explicit directions necessary; orders are wanting for purification or burning where necessary; goods to be taken out of ships upon their entering upon 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 procured; a Council of Health to be established and entrusted with discretionary powers; proper members of the Council of Health; vivres (food) of all kinds to be provided by the public; the bringing in of provisions to be rendered safe for the people in the country; fewel (sic) to be provided by the public; 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 laid up in a place of safety; families may avoid the disease by keeping themselves shut up in their own houses; proveditors (men and women to fetch provisions) necessary to families who shut themselves up; all assemblies and promiscuous 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 discharged; the city to be kept clean and well ventilated; the management of the infected; infected families not to be shut up; every infected person not to be sent to a hospital; the mischiefs which have formerly arisen from hospitals; tents and huts in the fields can not be conveniently employed; infirmaries with separate apartments to be provided; the inconveniences of ordinary hospitals avoided; how a sufficient number of empty houses may be found; how hospitals best adapted to the plague; infirmaries for persons under fever; hospitals for those who have plague sores; the safety of the latter kind of hospitals; proper place for 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 occasion for hospitals; lazerettos (maritime quarantine stations) necessary; dwelling houses most proper for lazerettos; lazarretos may be necessary for the poor; 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 especially to be 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. 18 pages. |