Cholera : orders, directions, and regulations of the Privy Council, under the Diseases Prevention Acts, and memoranda by their Medical Officer, with the particulars of the treatment recommended by the Royal College of Physicians, at the request of the Privy Council, and an introductory summary / by J.B. Hutchins.

  • Hutchins, J. B. (James B.)
Date:
1866
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Credit: Cholera : orders, directions, and regulations of the Privy Council, under the Diseases Prevention Acts, and memoranda by their Medical Officer, with the particulars of the treatment recommended by the Royal College of Physicians, at the request of the Privy Council, and an introductory summary / by J.B. Hutchins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in order that the present Eegulations may be broug-ht before them, and that the Vestry or Board may make, as they are hereby required to do, such preliminary arrangements as will enable them, if sudden need shall arise, to carry the following regulations into immediate effect; and the Vestiy or Board at such meeting shall direct the Clerk, by circular letters of request addressed to all legally quaUfied Medical Practitioners in the Parish or District, and in such other ways as the Vestry or Board may think necessary^, to take measures for causing the Vestry or Board to be nmde acquainted with any presence of Cholera or unusual amount or severity of Diarrhoea in the Parish or District, or any part of it, if such be existing or should thereafter exist: and the Vestry or Board if apprised of any such presence of Cholera or Diarrhoea shall there- upon forthwith, so far as the circumstances require, do the several things hereinafter ordered: II.—WHEN CHOLERA IS IN A PARISH OR DISTRICT. Meetings, 1. Every Vestry or Board shall make arrangements for meeting, where the disease' is actually prevailing, daily, either in a body or in one or more Com- mittees, according to the exigencies of the Parish or District, for the purpose of exercising the powers conferred upon them by the Act. Place of Meeting. 2. The meetings may be held at the ordinary Board-room, and where necessary, at such other places as shall appear to be most convenient for dealing with the disease, and the Vestry or Board shall cause proper minutes of all proceedings to be made and duly recorded. Medical Officer of Health. 3. The Medical Officer of Health shall, as far as practicable, attend the meetings of the Vestry or Board, and of its Committees, to render his advice thereat, and shall superintend all the medical arrangements for preventing and treating the disease. Appointment of Medical Visitors and Assistants. 4. In each Parish or District in which Cholera is present, or, if the quantity of work to be done renders it desirable to subdivide the parish or district, then in each of such subdivisions, a legally qualified Medical Practitioner shall be put in charge of the Parish or District or subdivision for the medical purposes of these Regulations; and to each such Medical Practitioner (hereinafter named the Medical Visitor) shall be allotted such Assistants as the Vestry or Board see fit. Such Medical Visitor, where practicable, or, in other cases, one of his Assistants, shall at least once daily visit those places assigned to him which are