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C 13.
Of Semi-public Offences in General.
ever people should be persuaded that it is better to clear a necessary
indulgence of the accidental inconveniences attending it, than for
the sake of preventing those inconveniences or for no reason at all
to persevere in the impracticable endeavour of preventing the
thing itself. To guard against the Gaol-Fever and other epidemic
diseases proceeding from want of air and cleanliness, regulations
have been made relative to those resorts of wretchedness,
where numbers of people crowded in promiscuous multitudes, the unfortunate with the guilty the healthy with the diseased, take up in crowds together take up their involuntary abode.
To guard against diseases which might be endemic
without being contagious, the manner of building in great towns
has been regulated; partly with other views partly to prevent
the impeding the free current remove impediments to the progress circulation of the Air: regulations have been
made for the removal of putrescent and other offensive substances,
and for the banishment or confinement of offensive trades
and manufactures. In the country, partly with the same view,
and partly for the sake of culture, the draining of marshes, the
extirpating of Woods in certain situations, the planting them in
others, either has been or might will have been encouraged.
Scarcity and particularly that which consists in respects those
Articles of ordinary food which are emphatically termed the Necessaries
of life has been the object of much and anxious regulation: It
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of semi-public offences in general |
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