Government regulations for the prevention of cholera : also instructions prepared by the Edinburgh Board of Health and approved of by the Royal College of Physicians.

Date:
1848
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Credit: Government regulations for the prevention of cholera : also instructions prepared by the Edinburgh Board of Health and approved of by the Royal College of Physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has been recognised, and the practical recommendations founded thereon are to Iceep the person and the dwelling- place clean, to allow of no sinks close to the house, to ad- mit of no poultry or animals within the house, to keep every apartment as airy as possible by ventilation, and to prevent crowding wherever there are sick. ^ ^, . Householders of all classes should be warned, that their first means of safety lies in the removal of dung heaps and solid and liquid filth of every description from beneath or about their houses and premises. Though persons long familiarised to the presence of such refuse may not per- ceive its oflfensiveness, nor believe in its noxious proper- ties, yet all who desire to secure themselves from danger should labour for the entire removal of filth and the thorough cleansing of their premises ; which also the law will require of each person for the protection of his neigh- bours, as well as for his own safety. Next to the perfect cleansing of the premises, dryness ought to be carefully promoted, which will of course re- quire the keeping up of sufficient fires, particularly in the damp and unhealthy districts, where this means should be resorted to for the sake of ventilation as well as of warmth Frmrinforraation recently obtained from Russia, it appears that, in some barracks and other places in which iTiS numbers of people are congregated, where tliese con- ditfons have been attended to in a manner that may be equally practised in private houses, there has ^'^en a com- parative immunity from the V^^^^^^^S ^if'^'^'';'^^^^^^ is in this country, where in public i^^'it^^^^ ' !^7fJ,^^ yet by no means perfect in the means of ventilation the. e has been an almost entire exemption from epidemics which have ravaged private houses in the very same dis- ^'Tnt while a certain amount of cleansing can be effected hv every householder, each in his own premises, the means of thoroughly purifying the densely populated districts •ire bevond the power of private individuals. . Accordingly, by the recent Act Uth and 12th Victoria o 103 sec. 1, in case of inability, insufficiency, or neglect, thela^ has charged the cleansing l^raUons upon certa^^^^ public bodies, namely, the town-councils, or ^lyl'^^^'^ll or commissioners for the drainage, P7>g' ^l^- °' Cleansing, or managing or directing the police, or an) «