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dead and the appointment of certain men and women who are 
especially fitted for the nursing of the sick to he employed 
here in the city, has considered a great many other useful regu¬ 
lations and provisions. On that account, everyone who has in 
this respect need of a man for carrying the sick, or of the serv¬ 
ice of the hospital, or of some one to nurse the sick or to carry 
away the dead, may get the needed good information from the 
sextons of both parishes, also from the four appointed officials 
whose duty it is to distribute the weekly alms, in the confident 
hope of mitigating therewith in some measure this terrible 
affliction with the help of God, in whom above all we shall 
trust and in whose divine mercy we place our hope. 
Decreed in the Senate on this 26th day of January 1562. 
