224 THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



exploration. The physicians constituting the 

 medical board should have been authorized to 

 seize any beast tainted with the typhus ; a 

 company should have been charged to collect 

 and keep ready for the public service, at the 

 four quarters of London, an ample retinue of 

 horses, closed carriages, and working men, to 

 convey at all hours of the day and night the 

 carcases of the slaughtered animals to the re- 

 spective spots, where long and deep trenches 

 had been dug to receive them. Each carcase 

 before burial to have been well sprinkled with 

 chloride of lime. 



By taking this course, every one's interest 

 would have been respected, as much as can be 

 desired when a great calamity threatens a 

 country; besides, in doing so, the present 

 ministers would but have followed the example 

 of the Government (with regard to compensa- 

 tion), during the epizootia of the eighteenth 

 century. The proprietors who had thus re- 

 ceived, not the full and absolute price, but a 

 sum sufficiently remunerative for their sacri- 

 ficed cattle, would have assisted the autho- 

 rities, and thereby would have served the 

 common interest, because their sick cattle, 



