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History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe
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_Airing the Stuff._

For sequestration of the goods and stuff of the infection, their
bedding and apparel, and hangings of chambers, must be well aired
with fire, and such perfumes as are requisite, within the infected
house, before they be taken again to use. This to be done by the
appointment of the examiner.

_Shutting up of the House._

If any person shall visit any man known to be infected of the
plague, or entereth willingly into any known infected house, being
not allowed, the house wherein he inhabiteth shall be shut up for
certain days by the examiner's direction.

_None to be removed out of Infected Houses, but, etc._

Item, That none be removed out of the house where he falleth sick
of the infection into any other house in the city (except it be to
the pesthouse or a tent, or unto some such house which the owner of
the said house holdeth in his own hands, and occupieth by his own
servants), and so as security be given to the said parish whither
such remove is made, that the attendance and charge about the said
visited persons shall be observed and charged in all the
particularities before expressed, without any cost of that parish
to which any such remove shall happen to be made, and this remove
to be done by night. And it shall be lawful to any person that hath
two houses to remove either his sound or his infected people to his
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