First report of the Board of Health. 30th April 1805. An outline of a plan to prevent the spreading of the plague, or other contagious diseases / Presented by the Board of Health, agreeably to the instructions of His Majesties most honourable Privy Council.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health
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[1805?]
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Credit: First report of the Board of Health. 30th April 1805. An outline of a plan to prevent the spreading of the plague, or other contagious diseases / Presented by the Board of Health, agreeably to the instructions of His Majesties most honourable Privy Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to keep in view. All the Regulations of Quarantine rest: upon this Foundation. The Separation of the Sick from those that are well, furnishes the only means which pro¬ mise any reasonable security against the spreading of such Calamities. Of the success of these precautions, we have many sig- Inftances, nal Instances* Since the fatal year of 1720 at Marseilles, several Persons, at different Periods, have been afflicted with the Plague in the Lazaretto of that Port; yet by a careful Prevention of Intercourse it has not spread. Also Persons under the same Roof, in different Apartments, when all communication has been cut off, have not suf¬ fered. The Practice in the Fa (Stories at Aleppo, and else- wdiere, of (S shutting up,” as it is termed, affords a well known Example of the same kind, where the Merchant continues in perfect Security in the Midst of a surround¬ ing Pestilence, whilst the Inhabitants of contiguous Houses, not cut off from Intercourse with the common People, become Victims of the Disease. In the Year 1771, the Plague raged at Moscow, and in the Month of September destroyed in thapCity 27,000 Persons, while the Nobility and opulent Gentry, who confined them¬ selves to their Palaces or Houses, suffered very little. And Mertens, who was a Physician on the Spot, informs Merten-? us, that it broke out Seven different Times in the Or- part a. chap, phan Charity there, containing 1400 Persons, and was as 4* P- 193; often suppressed by means of a careful Separation. Like¬ wise of the pestilential Disorder, lately so fatal at Mala¬ ga, we are informed, that the Inhabitants of Medina-SL donia remained uninfefled so long as the Governor kept the Gates shut 5 but upon Intercourse being permitted, the Disease presently attacked them *, yet then, by a vi¬ gilant and judicious Police, it was confined to one Quar¬ ter of the Town, and did not extend its ravages further. The Plague appeared in our Army during the late glo¬ rious Campaign in Egypt several Times ; but from the good Care that was immediately taken to separate the Sick from the Sound, and to prevent such intercourse as as allowed by the Turks, the Mischief it occasioned was comparatively /