![]() If it is absolutely necessary to leave the house, it will be done in turn, avoiding any meeting. Each family will have made its own provisions but, for bread and wine, small wooden canals are set up between the street and the interior of the houses, thus allowing each person to receive his ration without communicating with the suppliers and other residents meat, fish and herbs will be hoisted up into the houses with pulleys and baskets. ![]() ![]() The syndic himself comes to lock the door of each house from the outside he takes the key with him and hands it over to the intendant of the quarter the intendant keeps it until the end of the quarantine. On the appointed day, everyone is ordered to stay indoors: it is forbidden to leave on pain of death. Each street is placed under the authority of a syndic, who keeps it under surveillance if he leaves the street, he will be condemned to death. The following, according to an order published at the end of the seventeenth century, were the measures to be taken when the plague appeared in a town.įirst, a strict spatial partitioning: the closing of the town and its outlying districts, a prohibition to leave the town on pain of death, the killing of all stray animals the division of the town into distinct quarters, each governed by an intendant. ![]() “Panopticism.” In Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, translated by A. ![]()
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