General report of the Sanitary Committee of their proceedings under the orders of the Privy Council of the 21st July last, and the resolution of the Board of the 24th July last, on the outbreak of the cholera in the district.

  • St. Giles in the Fields (London, England : Parish). Sanitary Committee.
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[1867]
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Credit: General report of the Sanitary Committee of their proceedings under the orders of the Privy Council of the 21st July last, and the resolution of the Board of the 24th July last, on the outbreak of the cholera in the district. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    t THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE Giles's District. GENERAL REPORT of the Sanitary Committee of their proceedings under the Orders of the Privy Council of the 21st July last, and the Resolution of the Board of the 24th July last, on the outbreak of the Cholera in the District. Cholera appeared in London in its epidemic form at the begin- ning of July. It affected the Eastern Districts first, and with greatest violence. The deaths from it registered each week in the Metropolis are given in an appended Table (I) side by side with the mortality of corresponding weeks in the two preceding epidemics. On July 15th, an Order of Council declared the Diseases Prevention Act to be in force throughout the kingdom, and on July 21st a further order gave instructions as to the measures to be adopted in places where epidemic Cholera or Diarrhoea prevailed. On July 24th, the Board of Works instructed the Sanitary Com- mittee to consider and carry into effect the Orders of Council, and gave the Committee power to incur such expense as might be necessary in carrying out the same. Precautionary Action.—Next day the Committee met, and adopted means for detecting every case of Cholera and Diarrhoea at its earliest stages, for affording the promptest medical assistance to all