in that Service, on a Promise to use
their Interest for obtaining her Pardon. The young Woman escaped the
Disease, but neglecting to solicite the Corporation for the
Accomplishment of their Engagement with her, three or four Months after
she was barbarously hanged by the _Mayor_ upon a Quarrel between them.

I WOULD have it here observed, that as the Advice I have been giving is
founded upon this Principle, that the best Method for stopping
Infection, is to separate the _Healthy_ from the _Diseased_; so in small
Towns and Villages, where it is practicable, if the _Sound_ remove
themselves into _Barracks_, or the like airy Habitations, it may
probably be even more useful, than to remove the _Sick_. This Method has
been found beneficial in _France_ after all others have failed. But the
Success of this proves the Method of _Removing the Sick_, where this
other cannot be practised, to be the most proper of any.

WHEN the _sick Families_ are gone, all the Goods of the Houses, in which
they were, should be _buried_ deep under Ground. This I prefer to
_burning_ them: because, especially in a close Place, some infectious
Particles may possibly be dispersed by the Smoak through the
Neighbourhood; according to what _Mercurialis_ relates, that the
_Plague_ in _Venice_ was augmented by burning a large Quantity of
infected Goods in the City[83]. A learned Physician of my Acquaintance
lately communicated to me the Relation of a Case, (given to him by an
Apothecary, who was at the Place when the Thing happened) very proper
to be here mentioned. The Story is this. At _Shipston_, a little Town
upon the River _Stour_ in _Worcestershire_, a poor Vagabond was seen
walking in the Streets with the _Small-Pox_ upon him. The People
frightened took Care to have him carried to a little House, seated upon
a Hill, at some Distance from the Town, providing him with Necessaries.
In a few Days the Man died. They ordered him to be buried deep in the
Ground, and the House with his Cloaths to be burnt. The Wind, being
pretty high, blew the Smoak upon the Houses on one Side of the Town: In
that Part, a few Days after, eight Persons were seized with the
_Small-Pox_. So dangerous is _Heat_ in all Kinds of pestilential
Distempers, and so diffusive of Contagion. And moreover the Houses
themselves may likewise be demolished or pulled down, if that can
conveniently be done; that is, if they are remote enough from others:
otherwise it may suffice to have them