The history of cholera in Exeter in 1832 / by Thomas Shapter.

Date:
1849
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    the business confided to him are detailed in the following letter lie wrote at that time to the Mayor. London, 10th August, 1832. My Dear Sir, I waited on Mr. Phillips the Under Secretary of State at the Home Office, this morning, who referred me to the Council Office, stating that all business relative to the Cholera was entirely conducted there. I accordingly went to the Council Office, and had a long interview with Mr. Dwarris, the Counsel to the Central Board, to whom I represented very fully the difficulties under which we laboured. I also left with him copies of the resolution sending me here, of the application made to the Corporation of the Poor to allow the sums paid by the parishes in executing any orders of the Board of Health as part of their quotas, of the answer of the Corporation, of the proposals submitted to the Corporation for powers, and of my letter accompanying the proposals, and of the resolutions of the Corporation and Commissioners upon the proposals ; also suggestions as to the means of relief which may be afforded us, which papers Mr. Dwarris will peruse, and I am to see him upon them to-morrow. lie says that the Council will be ready to help us in any way in their power ; but admits that the defective state of the law, (which I am sorry to find his Majesty’s Government do not mean to amend,) throws great impediments in their way. An order is made and will appear to-night in the Gazette, authorising the Exeter Board of Health to apply to the Corporation of the Poor for powers, as in the case of Chester ; but I fear this will lead to nothing, and so Mr. Dwarris thinks. The Council will not allow the Board of Health es- tablished in St. Sidwell’s to continue, if its existence is at all likely to interfere with the Board previously constituted for Exeter. I hope to write to you again to-morrow, and am, My dear sir, See., John Gidley. To Wm. Kennaway, Esq., Chairman to the Exeter Board of Health. The above anticipation of the inefficiency of this Order in Council was fully realised, and the relations of the Board of Health and the Corporation of the Poor continued much as they did before. The following letter, written a few days later, by Mr. Blackall, in reply to a request for the abatement of a private F