46 EAELY QUARANTINE ARRANGEMENTS OF SALEM. 



Voted, that the house of Joseph Metcalf be licensed to 

 be open for inoculation for the small pox to be under 

 such restrictions & regulations as may hereafter be agreed 

 on. 



Voted, that the two houses at Castle Hill be licensed 

 to be open for inoculation for the small pox, to be under 

 such restrictions & regulations as may hereafter be agreed 

 on. 



Voted, that the farm house in South Fields owned by 

 CoP Pickman & improved by M'" Boynton be licensed to 

 be open for inoculation for the small pox to be under such 

 regulations as may hereafter be agreed on. 



That the Selectmen be impowered to open such houses 

 for the purpose of inoculation for the small pox, as they 

 may hereafter have occasion for & think necessary. 



Voted, that a Committee be appointed to superintend 

 the inoculation at the Neck, for the Barracks, Perkins's c&c, 

 such houses, & the patients, to be subject to such restric- 

 tions and regulations in every respect as they may pre- 

 scribe, with the advice & consent of the Selectmen. For 

 this Committee, Cap* Edw^ Allen, Cap* Benj. Ward & 

 Cap* Jon* Mason. 



That a Committee be appointed to superintend the in- 

 oculation at Castle Hill, M"" Metcalfs house, & Col« Pick- 

 mans farm house, together with such other houses as 

 may hereafter be licensed by the Selectmen for inocula- 

 tion for the small pox. The patients and such houses, to 

 be under such restrictions & regulations in every respect 

 as they may prescribe with the advice and consent of the 

 Selectmen. 



For this Committee M"" Jn^ Norris, Jn° Tread well Esq., 

 M"^ Nat Ropes, Deacon Holman and Deacon Sanderson." 



At last, in 1797, probably under the stress of this yellow 

 fever panic, quarantine regulations were placed on a new 



