London. Orders to be sett downe by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London for taking awaie such enormities as be meanes not only to continue but increase the plague and disorders of the Citie; being taken out of the proclamations set out by the Citie and the articles sett downe for providing for the poor and setting them to work.
Aldermen or their Deputies.
1. To give charge to Churchwardens, Constables, Parish Clerks and Bedells to enquire what houses be infected.
2. To visit the ward often to see orders observed, especially touching cleanness in the streets.
3. The Aldermen or their deputies in their own persons to appoint Surveyors monthly in every parishe.
4. To appoint that certificate may be made to them what houses be infected.
5. To give charge to all teachers of children that (as nere as they can) they permit no children to come to their scoles from infected houses, especiallie till such houses have bene clere by the space of 28 daies, and that none kepe a greater number than their Roomes shall be thought fit by the Aldermen or their deputies to conteyne.
Surveyours.
1. To see the orders for the sick executed daylie and diligentlie, upon knowledge from the Aldermen what houses be infected.
2. To appoint purveyours of necessaries for infected houses (being of the same houses), and deliver them reed rods to carry, and see that none other resort to their houses.