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,Majosiz(si, _'MistiHonourable Privy Council
playing teceivpd_ twO,;.eptitts from .the Board of
It ltli;; t 3 i~azt h au ins of,a .elao- to prevent
'the spreading of any Contagious Diseases, should -
tithe same unhappily manifest themselves at any time
,in any, 00.,gf,t4e.linited Kinadoni, have.r.-xeived
His Majesty's comtriands' to transmit tb your Lordship
Copies of ;46 said Itenor4„,,togejlier w.ith printed Ab--
straas of tho':Quarantintidtegtilatiolis established h
Majesty:As Order in .Council of theztly of April.
last, witlicithe.Quaiantine A& passed in,the present
Session of Parliament, the -Index thereto, His Ma-
jesty's said Order in Council of the rah of. April last,
arid Tables ,ofthe several goods which are toperibrm.
:quarantine wader the different , classes,;:and I have
at the same time earnestly to request your Lordship's
particular attention in causing, the striEtest pos-
bible obsen:ance of the Quarantine Laws and Rept-1
lations, and especially in preventing any person from.
landing. on any part of the coast of Lancashire froM
ships liable to quarantine.
In a matter so important to the
.public safety, I.
am confident your Lordship,will use your het
tions to carry the measures proposed by,the Lordssif.
the Privy Council into efteEt, and will employ. all
your.. influence with the ,Magistrates in' your. County,.
in calling upon them to exert their .utmost vigilance.
in entbrcing a .strict ,compl4ince with the Laws. and
Regulations above .mentioned p,. and I am' further to .
request„ that, 'through your Lordship and the Ma-
'listrates, it may be. strongly recommended to all
Medical Persons residing within your County.; to take
the earliest means of acquaint ing4the Lords. 0f,.1)
.Majesty's,Priv,y Council, or the Board, of Health, by
letter or otherwise, in case'any.Person or ,persons 're-
siding therein (and more. particularly in sea-port
towns or upon the:. Coast) ,shoula be attacked with
any fever,. attended, with new uncolumon symp-
, lotus, such as may atlbrd grounds for apprehension'
that such fever is of a contagious nature
,anctin the
event of any emergency to take sncli furtheLrnew
sures of precaution ak,may appear .A.O yourtLortlship
most expedient ; audio report, the §atne to His Ala-
jesty's Privy Council or to the Board of health.
I beg leave to,suggest toyour Lordship the expe-
diency of causing the above mentione4 Reports from
the Board of Health and the AbstraCis from the Qua-
rantine Ad. and Regulations to be inserted in the
County Paper, (or such other as may be most in cir-
culation AlieSoast),: with the view of rendering
. them as public as possible.
I have.the Honour to be,
My Lord,
Your must obedient humble Servant;
HANVIESBURY.

An autline of a Plan to Prevent the Spreading of the
Plague, or other Contagious Oiseases, presented by the
Board of Health, agreeably to the lnitruetions of His Ma-
Mee Honourable, Privy Council.

Preliminary Considerations --In obedience to the
Commands of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy
Coundil, we proceed to the cdnsideration of the Third
Head of their Lordships' instruaions, and to the de-
tail'of the measures which it would be proper to
titiopt in' case the Plague, or other -Infeaious Disease,
attended with great mortality, should pass the barrier
of the quarantine, and aattally appear, amongst Us.
Distress occasioned by the Plague.—lt is so long
since the 'Plague visited this ebuntry, that it is in
some degree lleCC36nry to r 1,00”, to the
miseries inflieed upon a Nation by that. greatest of
all calamities to which the human-race is subjec% in
order that we may hold ourselves the More ready to
Comply With' the 'regulations 'and 'orders which. .the
exigencies of such a time, would call for. Utt-
questionablythe miseries produced bya wide;spreild-
ing pestilence far excet..ds all others), 'and consider-
ing the size of our towns, and the populationOf them,
particularly ofthe Alotropolis; there i shardltany
don would have-so much to dread frotif that calamity
a 3 this kingdom. The destn ion ofthousands of indi-
viduais, theinterruptioii of trade, the check to' manu-,
faaures and commerce, and-the coni,equent dimintt-
tion. of tha.Publie Revenue, are some.ofthe Certain
evils attendant upon pestilence the regulations there,
fore,' andorders, necessary tocheck its progreks,or to
extinguish it at its first appearancei: however stria
they may he, canna -be (teethed harsh'if st4erQ
when the magnitude 'of the objeß for which they iris
framed i 5 considered: Nor indeed, theregttiY: tta.:
son 'to fear' that the %ood' fitenie of the I\Tatiort'Avould,
not readily 'acquiesce' iti 'Melt Ale6B; the Utility "and .ad.,
vantages; tts well akhe'neeeisity. 61:*Ifick,"Sfould
be obvious,

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Reguiddians drawn Pram the Plague:)—Te' should
be observed, that the4plrtkink:;ltegulatioffs are
founded', On what has" been
by' s€ 404-etriinence, tie
plague of, the Levant; r But its no,, disease cdn be
sat& ti, ita infea i-
ons andfrifir iriPtibtit;rtrettannable. to pre-
sume ',Hutt ::the'iptectintiiii4Athich have 'been'found
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unmet* to guard against 4hat'f:wOuld: likewise be
effeklual ageing': the Sielalo94 WhiCh'iatify prevailed
at Gibraltar, urv.suayLoshtic....coutagious and mortal
distemper. -
Of Sepatation.--The'e,,,i'periefiCe. of many centu-
ries
has shewn, that tle:Plague. is spread by near ap-
proach to, or 'aEtual conta& with, the person of the
sick,' and'hi cluthOinta apparel, Which, having im-
bibed the poisdn, axe eripablentz;ietaining it. Hence
iris only• necessary to keep at a c#rfriin distance from
those 41 of the diseaie, and fretifttich!things as have
been exposed to it, in ordettotavOid thet!Citittigibit.
This is the great principle we are all along to
,kep
in view. MI the regulations rif QdarinitineereSt upon
this foundation..' :The separation ot~ the tick from
triose' that zire'lalt4ll • thrnishes the'only4neans which
prontlie any eti rsontableectirity!.aganSt i the spre4ding
of such ealainitici.''
11184intt!'“Inhe SiidtleSk of Wesel precautions we
'ijitiral'instinliies.j- Since the fatal',-year of
7.d, at l'ltirSeille§, itevefat pe-ysoftsi at
periods,' haVe bet4ll afflietelcl With tli plague in the
azartto Of that Port ;
.yet, by 'a careful prevention
inter curse, it has nut spread..,:,AlSoperions nil-
' der the 'urine roof, !apatrtnients, hen
ail commutiication lias been` 'cut :inf,thitve- not. S9ll-
f,:!refl. The & slake in the rkietotiesi At 'Aleppo. and,
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elsewhere, of " shutting up," it is'- termed,
fords a well-known example of the satinVitind, where
t lie-Merchant . con Unties perlea— security _in the
midst-of, a surrounding pestilence;:. sv.hilst the,inba-