the magistrato alla sanità had supreme authority in matters of public health, jurisdiction over vagrants and beggars was shared beginning in 1588 with the provveditori sopra ospedali e luoghi pii (superintendents of hospitals and recovery houses). the authority of the magistrato alla sanità extended not only to the entirety of the venetian lagoon but also to the other cities of the venetian republic by means of establishing health offices in each. extensive infrastructure was introduced in the ionian islands, which were viewed particularly throughout the 17th and 18th centuries as likely sources of disease outbreaks due to their proximity to asia minor and, by extension, the ottoman empire. however, in many cases, the magistracy's authority was often not direct; for example, the lazarets were able to bypass local health authorities and report directly to the regional government in times of low disease activity, only falling under the health office's direct jurisdiction in times of emergency. during the fall of the republic of venice, as napoleon’s troops were occupying the republic's territory with numerous reforms to government and infrastructure, the office of the magistrato alla sanità was folded into the health committee (italian: comitato di sanità) for a short period of time before eventually being disbanded, with its duties assigned to other magistracies. archive the archive of the superintendents of health contains nearly four centuries of documentation on not only the conditions of public health and sanitation within the venetian republic, but also of other contemporary states, on account of the extensive information gathered by the officials from their foreign counterparts as part of their regular surveillance of potential foreign-borne epidemics. the inventory for the archive, along with an index of names and locations, was published by salvatore carbone in 1962. notes the name senate, of classical derivation, began to be used in the renaissance. the early name of the assembly was the consiglio dei pregadi (council of pregadi) since the members were pregadi ('prayed', invited) to attend. see besta, il senato veneziano..., p. 20 and da mosto, l'archivio di stato di venezia..., p. 34. the sottopregadi were subdivided into three classes, termed lochi, on the basis of their importance, the three provveditori alla sanità being assigned to the second loco. to be eligible for election as provveditore alla sanità it was required that the individual have already served in an office belonging to the first (inferior) loco. see maranini, la costituzione di venezia, ii, p. 171. the collegio dei x savi del corpo del senato was initially created to relieve the full college of the responsibility for resolving disputes over tax exemptions and privileges for cities subject to venice and for non-venetians. it later came to also hear appeals for sentences issued by select standing committees of the senate, including the magistrato alla sanità. the collegio dei x savi del corpo del senato was initially formed every six months by extracting ten senators by lot. in 1569, the number of members was increased to fifteen for exceptional cases, and in 1619 the number was increased to twenty, chosen by lot every four months from among the senators and former senators. with the reform of 1619, the organ was renamed the collegio dei xx savi del corpo del senato. see andrea da mosto l'archivio di stato di venezia..., p. 105.