Certain necessary directions as well for the cure of the plague as for preventing the infection with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Majesties subjects / set down by the Colledge of Physicians ...

III. Prevention of dispersing the Contagion amongst Persons.

IT is advisable, That all néedless Con∣courses of People be prohibited; That the Pror be reliebed and set at work, and Beggers not suffered to go about; That all sale of corrupt Provision for Food be re∣strained; That Stréets and Houses be as diligently and tarefully as may be, kept clean; the Stréets washed and cooled as much as may be, by the plentiful running of the Conduits and Water otherwise procu∣red. And it were to be wished, that Vaults for Privies might be emptied onely in Winter: and that Soap-suds and Liquours

wherein foul Clothes are washed or rinsed, might, as much as may be, be otherwise conveighed, than through the Stréets and Gutters, or washed away with plenty of water.

It were also to be wished, that the Slaughter-houses were utterly put from out the Liverties of the City, being in them∣selves very offensive; And that Funnels in Church-vaults be considered of, and the depth of Graves, and the putting of Quick-Lime into them, and the infected buryed without the City.