38 EARLY QUARANTINE ARRANGEMENTS OF SALEM. 



Town Meeting, Novem. 1st., 1773. 



The Committee chosen at the town meeting of Octo- 

 ber 27th, made report in the following words, to wit. 

 The Committee appointed by the town at their meeting 

 on the 27th instant to consider of a proper place, and to 

 draw up Restrictions & Regulations for inoculating, and 

 to make report thereof to the town, at the adjournment, 

 Report as follows, to wit, — 



1. That a Hospital be erected at the southeast corner of 

 the Great Pasture near the land set off from it to the 

 late Co^ Pickman, on such a spot as the committee 

 shall judge most suitable. 



2. That the Hospital be built and furnished by the sub- 

 scribers and in such manner as they, at a meeting 

 warned for that purpose, shall direct. 



3. That in like manner the subscribers shall appoint a 

 committee for building the Hospital, and a Physician 

 or Physicians to attend it. 



4. That Overseers be appointed by the town, to manage 

 and direct all the afiairs of the Hospital. 



5. That before the Hospital be opened, the Overseers 

 shall appoint suitable nurses, cleansers, guards and 

 tenders. 



6. That a fence shall be set up at a proper distance from 

 the Hospital ; and on some convenient spot, twenty 

 feet distant from the fence, a bar shall be erected ; 

 and the ijuards shall suffer no communication between 

 persons at the Hospital & others, but at that spot and 

 distance. 



7. That the guards shall permit none to leave the Hos- 

 pital, till the cleanser hath certified that they have 

 been properly cleansed and shifted. 



8. That the cleanser shall not himself go into, nor suf- 

 fer others to enter, the clean Room during their res- 

 idence at the Hospital, and when any persons are 



