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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    bounds thereof, unless for any good and sufficient reasons which shall be made to appear to the satis- faction of the said Board of Health, such Board •shall determine that the regulation can be safely dispensed -with in any particular excepted case, when it is further directed .that the express grounds of such particular exception shall be truly and at length stated and entered in the minutes of the pro- ceedings of such Board of Health, and a copy of such, entry shall forthwith 'be transmitted to the Clerk in Ordinary of .the Privy Council, for the in- formation of their Lordships ; and the Lords of the Privy Council do further command and order that the intermeutief all persons certified by any medical practitioner to have died of the said disease of spasmodic, or Indian cholera, shall take plac within the space of twenty-four hours from the time of the death of every such person, and all the relations and nearest friends of every person so dying, and all other His Majesty's snbjects having controul over the disposal of the respective bodies, are hereby strongly enjoined, ordered, and directed to enforce the performance of this provision, under the pain of incurring the penalties denounced in the before re- cited Act, against all persons guihy of disobedience to the Orders of their Lordships in Council: and c”ery such Board of Health is heieby empowered and allowed to discharge the funeral expences of all persons dying of the said disease within the jurisdiction of the said Board, whose relations or friends shall procure the interment of the body within the before limited time of twenty-four hours after the decease of such persons, and according to : the directions of the said Board of Healthy also with full power and authority for every such Board of Health to burn and destroy, or cause to be burnt and destroyed, such clothes, bedding, or any other articles belonging to, or used by the deceased, in his or her lifetime as the said Board shall deem necessary to be destroyed, paying the value thereof to their legal representatives, to be charged upon the poors’ rate of the parish in whieh such person died : but if such meetings in burghs or parish shall not agree and de iermine by a majority of the votes of the mem- bers then present, taken in the usual and ordinary manner of voting at such meetings, that it is Printed aDd Published at tbc Office, in Cannon-Row salutary and expedient to confer all or any of such powers upon the Boards of Health appointed for such parishes or places respectively, or if such owners of the soil as aforesaid shall not consent to the open- ing and scouring, or the closing and covering of drains and ditches, and pools, at the expence of the parish as aforesaid, then it is ordered anl enjoined that no such authority or poweis, and no part of such powers as shall be refused or withheld by such ves- tries, shail be claimed or exercised by any Board of Health in any parish or place, except when such, or any other authority and powers shall, upon due con- sideration of the premises, be conferred and given to any such Boards of Health by any Order or Or- ders to be made by the Lords and others of Hi* Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, certified under the hand of one of the Clerks in Ordinary of the Privy Council: And for defraying all and every the expences which may be necessarily incurred in earn ing into effect this Order of the Lords of the Privy Council, it shall be lawful for all such Boards of Health, so constituted and empowered as aforesaid, and they are hereby authoiised and directed, to make ap- plication, by their chairman or secretary, to the magistrates of the burgh, or any four of the prin- cipal heritors of the parish, to contribute and ad- vance such sum as may be necessary, either out of the assessments by the sail last-mentioned Act authorised and directed, or in the event of such assessments not then being realized, on the credit of such assessments; and all police and peace officers, all constables and headboi oughs, and all others His Majesty’s subjects are heieby required to be aiding and assisting in the execution of this Order: » And the Lords and others of His Majesty’-s Privy Council of whom the Lord President ol the Council is one) do hereby declare, that for all acts, deeds, matters, and thi. gs, whic.i may be necessarily and properly done by any such burgh magistrates and commissioners of police, BourJs of Healtn, members of Kirk sessions, heritors, inspectors, peace officers, constables, headboroug is, and others of His Ma- jesty’s subjects, in execution and furtherance of this present Order, this Order shall be their full, and sufficient warrant. C. C. Greville. Parliament-Strectj by Robert George Ciarhe. [ Pike Seven Pence. ]
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