Considerations on the means of preventing the communication of pestilential contagion, and of eradicating it in infected places / [William Brownrigg].

  • Brownrigg, William, 1712-1800.
Date:
1771
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Credit: Considerations on the means of preventing the communication of pestilential contagion, and of eradicating it in infected places / [William Brownrigg]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ IO] confuls are farther directed to make particular in¬ quiry, whether any of the crew of fuch mailers of Chips as fhall apply to them for bills of health, have, within a certain time, laboured under this difeafe $ and, where it fhall appear that there has been any contagion among them, to take particular care that all bed-cloaths, wearing apparel, uteniils, and other goods to which this contagion may adhere, be de¬ stroyed ; and the Chip thoroughly purified before any part of its cargo be taken into it. Alfo to make due inquiry whether any part of the merchandife, intend¬ ed to be laden in the (hip, hath been depofited in in- fefted houfes, that it may either be prohibited from being put on board, or may be duly aired before it is taken in [6] $ and not to grant any bill of health worn by this young lady, which fhe had received from London; wrhere it had been made up by one that was recovering from the fmall-pox. The abovementioned articles of commerce may be ranked among thofe that are moft liable to receive and to con¬ vey contagion. But no neceffary precautions againil: its being in¬ troduced by any other kind of merchandife fhould be negledted. The argumentum e into ought here to take place in its full extent: for no great damage can arife from unneceflary pre¬ caution in an affair of fuch moment; but too great fecurity therein may be attended with the moil fatal confequences; firft to individuals, and from them to the public. 16] After the plague had raged two years at Aleppo (in 1761 and 1762) the Britifh conful, fo foon as it had there ceafed for forty days, thought himfelf authorized to give the mailers of .Chips, who had long waited to take in goods from that place, fuch bills of heath, as are ufually there called clean bills ; on producing of which at the cudom-houfes in this kingdom, the merchandife brought from that place would be permitted to be landed without performance of Quarantine, or other precautions taken; although fome of the filk, cotton, camels-hair, or other goods, of which the cargoes brought from Aleppo ufually con- fift, might poffibly have been long depofited there in infedted until