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or the goods of any infected place, from going out of it, till 

 they have undergone a proper quarantine. 



DCLXXIV. The third measure for prevention, to be em- 

 ployed with great care, is to hinder the infection from spreading 

 among the inhabitants of the place in which it has arisen. The 

 measures necessary for this, are to be directed by the doctrine 

 laid down in LXXXIL; and from that doctrine, we infer, that 

 all persons who can avoid any near communication with infected 

 persons or goods, may escape the infection. 



DCLXXV. For avoiding such communication a great deal 

 may be done by the magistrate : 1. By allowing as many of the 

 inhabitants as are free from the infection, and not necessary to 

 the service of the place, to go out of it. 2. By prohibiting all 

 assemblies, or unnecessary intercourse of the people. 3. By 

 taking care that necessary communications be performed with- 

 out contact. 4. By making such arrangements and provisions 

 as may render it easy for the families remaining to shut them- 

 selves up in their own houses. 5, By allowing persons to quit 

 houses in which an infection appears, upon condition that they 

 go into lazarettoes. 6. By ventilating and purifying, or destroy- 

 ing, at the public expense, all infected goods. Lastly, By 

 avoiding hospitals, and providing separate apartments for in- 

 fected persons. 



The execution of these measures will require great authority, 

 and much vigilance and attention on the part of the magistrate ; 

 but it is not our province to enter into any detail on the subject 

 of the public police. 



DCLXXVI. The fourth and last part of the business of pre- 

 vention, respects the conduct of persons necessarily remaining 

 in infected places, especially of those obliged to have some com- 

 munication with persons infected. 



DCLXXVII. Of those obliged to remain in infected places, 

 but not obliged to have any near communication with the sick, 

 they may be preserved from the contagion by avoiding all near 

 communication with other persons, or their goods ; and it is prob- 

 able, that a small distance will answer the purpose, if at' the 

 same time there be no stream of air, to carry the effluvia of per- 

 sons or goods to some distance. 



DCLXXVII I. For those who are necessarily obliged to 



