Precautionary hints to persons residing in places suffering or likely to suffer from cholera; with concise directions for the treatment of those threatened with or actually attacked by the disease in situations where medical advice cannot be immediately obtained.

  • Great Britain. Central Board of Health
Date:
1832
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Precautionary hints to persons residing in places suffering or likely to suffer from cholera; with concise directions for the treatment of those threatened with or actually attacked by the disease in situations where medical advice cannot be immediately obtained. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    certain nuisances and offensive and dangerous mat- ters. having a tendency to promote infection, and which are likely to be prejudicial to the public health, should be abated and removed : It is therefore ordered by the Lords and others of His Majesty’s Privy Council (of whom the Lord President of the Council is one), in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in them by the before recited Act, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, that every Board of Health which wow is, or hereafter shall be constituted, by virtue of any Order or Orders of His Majesty’s Privy Council, certified under the hand of one of the Clerks in Ordinary of the Privy Council, shall and may, by their chairman or secretary, apply to the acting parish officers or district churchwardens for the time being, of the parish, township, ecclesias- tical division, district, or place, for which such Boards of Health arc appointed, to convene a meeting of the select vestry of such parish or place, or in pa- rishes where no select vestry is established, to con- vene a meeting of the inhabitants in parish vestry, which said meetings in select or parish vestries the said parish officers or district churchwardens, are hereby directed and commanded to convene, after three days’ full notice of the time and place of holding the same: and at such meetings respec- tively, every such Board of Health shall and may submit to such select or parish vestries, proposals for their permission and consent that such Board of Health should be invested with all or any of the powers following, (to wit); that such Boards should be enabled to expend and lay out a certain sum of money, of a fixed and declared amount (of the intended application and disposal of which money, a plan and estimate shall be at the same time sub- mitted or tendered to the said vestry), for the pur- poses of furnishing medicines and medical assis- tance, nurses, and other necessary attendants to the sick poor at their own habitations, in all those cases where persons afflicted with the said disease cannot be conveniently removed to cholera hospitals ; and further, of supplying medicines at different dispen- sary stations; together with the necessary incidental expences of every such Board of Health; also for the purpose of cleansing and whitewashing any house or habitation in which there exist dangerous impurities, and of removing, taking, and carrying away any corrupt, offensive, and dangerous matter within, or contiguous to, any house or habitation: also to effect the removal of any offal or filth from any slaughter-house in any city, town, or populous distiict; also to engage medical inspectors to visit and report upon the sanitary state of health of all lodging-houses kept for the reception of vagrants; also for the purposes of opening and scouring any such diains or watercourses, and of closing and ending any such open drains, ditches, and cess- pools, as, being likely to be prejudicial to the public health, such parishes may be willing and desirous of undertaking 10 cleanse or cover, themselves defray- ing the expences thereof out of the parish funds ; also to purchase, inclose, and fence lands for burying- giounds and cemeteries ; also to pay the funeral expences of persons dying of the said disease : and if such select or parish vestries shall ton- sent and agree by a majority of the votes of the members or inhabitants then present, taken in the usual and ordinary manner of voting at such select or parish vestries, that it is salutary and expedient to confer all or any of such authority and powers upon the Board of Health appointed for such parish or place, that it shall and may be lawful for such Boards of Health, and they are hereby invested with authority and power, under and by virtue of this Order of the Lords of the Privy Council (of whom the Lord President of the Council is one), to execute every one of such respective powers as shall be so conferred upon them as afore- said, (to wit); upon receiving a certificate in writing, signed by two medical practitioners, of the existence of any offensive impurities, dangerous to the public health, within any house, or within twenty yards of any house or habitation, by themselves, their servants, or others of the King’s subjects, to enter any dwelling-house, hut, or cabin in any street, lane, court, alley, gateway, passage, or place in any city, town, division, or district, and at some seasonable time (regard being always had to the convenience of the inmates thereof), to wash, scour, cleanse, white- wash, and fumigate the same, and to empty and clean out the cellars thereof, and to clear, cleanse, and purify all the sink-holes and drains thereof, and also to remove all swine out of any dwelling-house, hut, or cabin to any adjoining hog-stye, when and so soon as such sufficient styes shall have been pro- vided for the reception of the same at the expence of the parish: and with power to enter upon the lands or grounds of any person or persons, bodies politic, corporate, or collegiate, and to remove, take and carry away all decayed fruits, vegetables, and garden-stuff, all putrid fish, and any other corrupt or offensive and dangerous matter or thing, placed, deposited, or kept within twenty yards of any house or habitation ; also to give notice to the owner or occupier of any slaughter-house in any city, town, or populous district, to remove, take and carry away any refuse, offal, garbage, filth, or sweepings of such slaughter-house, and to effectually wash and cleanse the same ; and if such filth shall not be re- moved, or shall not be commenced or set about to be removed, within one hour after such notice, then with full power and authority to enter every such slaughter-house and to remove, take and carry away all such offal, and all other rubbish and tilth whatso- ever: also with authority to appoint one or more such medical inspectors as aforesaid, to visit all lodging- houses used and kept for the reception of trampers and vagrants, once daily, at some seasonable hour, and to inquire into and report upon the condition of the same, and the state of health of the persons congregated therein, and the number of persons who have died of the said disease; and all such medical inspectors, so appointed as aforesaid, are hereby authorised and empowered to enter every such house for the purposes aforesaid, at the time and in the mariner hereinbefore mentioned: and with further powers for the said Boards of Health to open, cleanse, and scour any such drains, ditches, water- courses, soughs, gutters, aud cesspools, and to close and cover any such open drains, ditches, and cess- pools, as a majority of the said vestries shall agree to be offensive and dangerous, and to require such cleansing or covering respectively, and to have the con- sent of such vestry, or of a majority thereof, to the undertaking and engaging to cleanse and cover the same at the parish expence; the entire expence of the opening and cleansing, or of the closing and covering, of any such drain, ditch, or pool respec- tively, in no case exceeding fifty pounds for. the
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