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authorities might see that disinfection was carried out. 

 Three years later the scope of the ordinance was ex- 

 tended so as to make the notification of illness com- 

 pulsory as well as those of death. Secret notifications 

 were received, and half the fine imposed for breach of 

 ordinance was assigned to the informer. The physi- 

 cians of Bologna appear to have treated the ordinance 

 with scant respect, and the Cardinal Legate accordingly 

 threatened to proceed against them. They, therefore, 

 selected two of their body to draw up a memorial set- 

 ting forth the grounds of their disbelief in the contagi- 

 ousness of phthisis. * * * The authorities, how- 

 ever, stood firm/ 



"In 1782 most stringent laws for disinfecting the 

 belongings of the phthisical were introduced into the 

 kingdom of Naples by Ferdinand IV, and which were 

 maintained for more than fifty years. The penalties 

 for non-observance of the regulations were extremely 

 severe. For interfering with the sanitary officers in 

 the .discharge of their duty 'ignoble' persons were pun- 

 ished with three years of the galleys or prison; 'nobles' 

 by three years' confinement in a fortress and a fine of 

 300 ducats. Physicians received a similar fine for the 

 first offense and ten years' banishment for the second. 

 'Purchasers of infected clothing were punished by three 

 years of the galleys, while those who sold them were 

 fined three times the value of the articles sold.' In 

 every case the ceilings, walls, floors, doors and windows 

 of rooms in which consumptives died were torn out and 

 burned, and new ones were substituted. The bedding 

 and furniture shared the same fate, and such dwellings 



