Report by the Central Board of Health of Jamaica / presented to the legislature under the provisions of the 14th Vic. chap. 60, and printed by order of the Assembly.

  • Jamaica. Central Board of Health
Date:
1852
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Credit: Report by the Central Board of Health of Jamaica / presented to the legislature under the provisions of the 14th Vic. chap. 60, and printed by order of the Assembly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    prevalence of epidemic cholera. In this as in other vjouDtries, much difficulty has been experienced in inducing- the lower classes to apply for medical re- lief upon the earliest indication of the premonitory sickness. Upon estates and other places where num- bers of persons assemble together for work, it will be useful, as a precautionary means, to inspect and interrogate each individual before commencing work in the morning, and upon leaving it in the evening.—■ In towns and large villages where the disease has ap- ]jeared, the only efficient means of arresting its ra- vages is by establishing a system of regular house-to- house visitation, so that all the slighter rases may be romptly discovered, and the more aggravated ones e brought, without loss of time, under medical treat- ment. - In order that prompt assistance may be afforded to the sick, it will be prudent that a register of such persons as may be willing to act as nurses or attend- ants, should be kept in each district, and that their j emnneration per diem should be fixed by the local Siiithorities. I dissent from all parts of the notification which infer the doctrine of non contagion, and all matters founded on that opinion ; and more particularly from the opinions that no injurious effects can arise from hand- ling or keeping cholera corpses, and that there is no necessity to have separate places of burial. \V. 1). TURNER, M. D. President of the College of Physiciaju and i>'ur(;eons, Jamaica. T. Jam^-s Brown, Secretary. &p(i7ii^h-Tvivn, July \st, 1B51. True copy,