GENERALITÉ DE PARIS 1781. DOG RAGE, Epidemic and Epizootic D - Lot 194

GENERALITÉ DE PARIS 1781. DOG RAGE, Epidemic and Epizootic Diseases: DE PAR LE ROI (Louis XVI). Ordonnance de M. l'Intendant de la Généralité de PARIS : Louis Bénigne François BERTIER, Chevalier, Surintendant des Maison, Finances, Domaines Affaires de la Reine (Marie-Antoinette), concernant les fonctions des Syndics dans chaque Paroisse. November 27, 1781. "Not being able to take precautions too exact to be promptly informed of all that can interest the safety and health of the King's Subjects, in the Parishes of the Generality of Paris, as well as the conservation of the instruments of culture of the Epizootic Epidemic Diseases, in order to procure for the Parishes which are attacked by them, the help which will be necessary to them to prevent the consequences, We thought it necessary to prescribe to the Syndics what they will have to do in this respect." As soon as there are 4 or 5 sick people in the same parish, he must give immediate notice. If he is aware that a rabid dog or a dog suspected of rabies has bitten someone, he must give immediate notice... as soon as these people have been bitten, they will voluntarily go to the Establishment we have just set up in SAINT-DENIS...". - Printed in PARIS, by Imprimerie Royale, 1781. Royal vignette and Fleurs de lys. Cupboard (54 x 40) Condition B.