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Show f London News 250 Years Old Is Found & t3 3 i Disease Checking Ways Sound Modern I TACSIMILE of the ancient copy of the London News, in the possession of Judge E. J. Milne, which tells how I the people of two hundred and fifty years ago fought the plague that threatened to exterminate the inhabitants of London. ; . KUMB, 2. THE " .1 PUBLISHED FOR THE SATISFACTION & INFORMATION of the PEOPLE. WITH PRIVILEGE. jtjXy 6, 1665. rT- Y orderfromtheRightHonourable J Jf$ the Lord Arlington principal ; Y Secretary, of State to . His Ma- : 0 jestie, I am commanded to pub-1 pub-1 lish the following, advertisement df to satisfy all persons of the great &si . careoftheRightHonourablethe Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council, for prevention of spreading of the infection. in-fection. Who by their order dated the one and thirtieth day .of Jlqy last past did authorise & require the Justices of the Peace'forthe County of Middlesex and City and Libertie of Westminster West-minster j or' any:nve of them, to treat with James A ngier .Esq. yVLon his offers of certain Remedies .and Medicament for stopping the contagion of the Plague & for disinfecting houses already, infected, &c. And whereas Sir John Rabihgm, Knight & "Baronet, His Majesties -Lieutenant of the Tower, ' Sir George ' Charnocke, Knight, His Majesties Serjeant at Arms in-.Ordinary, . Humphrey Weld, Thomas -Whart in f Joseph Ay loffe, Rotirt Jejon'i James Norfolk, Serjeant at Arms. atterndtng the Honourable House of Commons, and William Uowle, Esquires, Justices of the UvUgr ft? said CouAty of Mrtdtetx at Notice to Health Examiner, Quarantine and Disinfecting Disin-fecting Required. ATIME-vfoRN journal, which lias every appearance of being an original of the July 6, 1665, edition edi-tion of the London News, is in the possession of Judge E. J-Milne, J-Milne, formerly of the juvenile court of Vtah. Judge Milne declares he obtained the paper from an old pioneer who found it in an archaic copy of Hir Walter Raleigh's Ra-leigh's "History of the World." which he had brought from England with his personal per-sonal baggage. The publication deals particularly with the measures adopted by the London authorities au-thorities to com 3at the plague which was then raging: in that city; and in view of the recent influenza epidemic it has an especial interest at the present time for purposes of comparison. That the methods meth-ods employed by humanitv over 250 years go to fight coniagious diseases bear a j striking resemblance to the measures in vogue today, is the surprising lesson taught by this old document. A few quotations will illustrate: "The master of every house, as soon as any one in his house complulneth either of botch or pimple, or swelling in any part of his body, or falleth otherwise dangerously sick, without apparent cause of some other disease, shall give knowledge knowl-edge thereof to the Examinet of Health within two hours after said sign shall appear. "As soon as any man shall be found by tho Examiner, Chirurgean, or Searcher Search-er to be sick of the Plague, he shall the same nTght be sequestered in the same house, and in case he is so sequestered there, though he afterwards die not, the house wherein he sickened should be shut up for a month after the use of the due preservatives taken by the rest. "If any person shall have visited any man known to be infected of the plague, or entered willingly into any known infected in-fected house being not allowed, the house wherein he inhabit ed shall be shut up for certain days by the Examiner's direction." the desire. of th said fingierk. the inhabitants in the house of Jenas Charlts in Aftwtn Street, in the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields; in the said County, permit oneRichard Goodall, servant of the said Angier, with his Medicaments, to enter the said house' on Thursday, the 8; of July, instant. After four several persons . had dyed full of the spots out of the said house and ' eight more remained therein, whereof two were infected with the Plague. And whereas upon examination of several witnesses upon oath before the said justices, proof was made that Upon application'of the said-Medicaments there, and in several other houses, no person had dyed1 in any of the said houses since the same was therein used. And wherea3 in persuance of. the .said Order the. said Justices upon the izlh instant did report to the Lords of the Council, to whom the prevention of spreading the infection infec-tion of the Pestilence is referred.Hhejr proceedings proceed-ings thereupon. And whereas upon reading1 the said Justices report and the proposals of the said Angler: as-a4so of his several Certificates -from foreign parts, for proving the happy success suc-cess of the-said-Kirj'Tlemedies in stopnjng the Infection in Lyons. Paris, Sirenlot&g and othercities, the said Committee of Lords d |
