[1/?] Research this week has led me to measures introduced at the turn of the 16th century by the town council of #Edinburgh to try & control spread of the plague, many of which will sound familiar to us in 2020:

Residents were put on a rota to guard the town walls (1498)

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10 p.m. curfew, and all taverns and schools should be closed (1498)
Children should stay indoors and should not attend church (1498)

This obviously didn't work well as the next year:

Children wandering in the streets would be put in the stocks and scourged (1499)

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All trading booths should be closed on pain of all goods being confiscated (1499)

The Lawnmarket, the principal market below Castle Hill, was closed (1500)

Members of a household with a plague victim should avoid contact with others for 12 days (1500)

[4/?] Other measures included preventing residents from harbouring outsiders, banning travellers from Peebles & Haddington, washing & smoking goods from infected premises and threats of branding and other punishments.

It took until 1514 for #Edinburgh to bring it under control

[5/5] The plague resurged many times in #Edinburgh over the 16th and 17th centuries

In 1597 regulations stated that there would be an allowance of "16 d per day provided for poor people kept in isolation at home"

You can read more in this great paper:
https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/college/journal/eleven-plagues-edinburgh