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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    V think fit so to do, to invest and entrust their respective Boards of Health, established for such parishes or places, and constituted by an Order of the Lords and others of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, with sufficient powers and authority to pro- vide temporary hospitals, with all necessary articles for the reception and cure of persons affected with the said disease, and also houses of observation for the reception of persons whom it may be necessary or proper to remove from communication with in- fected persons; it is, therefore, ordered by the Lords and others of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council (of whom the Lord President of the Council is one) in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in them by the before re- cited Act, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, that every Board of Health which now is, or hereafter shall be, constituted by virtue of any Order or Orders of His Majesty’s Privy Council, cer- tified under the hand of one of the Clerks in Ordinary of the Privy Council, shall and may, by their chair- man or secretary, apply to, request and desire the acting parish officers, or district churchwardens for the time being of the parish, township, ecclesiastical division, district, or place, for which Boards of Health are appointed, to convene a meeting of the select vestry of such parish or place, or in parishes and places where no select vestry is established, to con- vene a meeting of the inhabitants in parish vestry, which said meetings in select, or in parish vestries, the said parish officers, or district churchwardens, are hereby directed and commanded to call and convene as early as can conveniently be done, after the publication of the usual notices of the time and place of holding the same; and at such meetings respeetively, every such Board of Health shall and may submit to such select or parish vestries, proposals for their permission and consent that such Boards of Health should be empowered and enabled to con- tract for, engage, and hire, and bv themselves, their servants, or others, to possess, hold, and occupy any messuage, house, or other suitable building, and to erect any temporary buildings upon land belong- ing to the parish, or where there is no land belonging to the parish conveniently situate for the site of such buildings, to contract for the use and occupation of land for such purpose of erecting temporary buildings thereon, and to establish all and every such messuages, houses, buildings, and temporary erections, so hired or constructed as afore- said, as cholera hospitals, or as houses of observa- tion, for the reception of persons not at the tiuie affected with the said disease, but whom it may be necessary or proper to remove from com- munication with infected persons; also to procure and purchase a sufficient and necessary supply of beds, food, clothing, fuel, and medicine, and to engage medical assistance and nurses, and other necessary attendants ; and if such select vestries or parish vestries shall consent and agree, by a majority of the votes of the members or inhabi- tants then present, taken in the usual and ordi- nary manner of voting at such select or parish vestries, that it is salutary and expedient to confer such authority and powers upon the Board of Health appointed for such parish or place, then it shall and may be lawful for such Hoards of Health, and they are hereby empowered and authorised to undertake, enter upon, do and perform all the acts, deeds, matters, and things required of them in the execution of such their trusts, under the authority and by virtue of this Order of the Lords and others of the Privy Council (of whom the Lord President of the Council is one), with power to remove and convey, or cause to be conveyed, to any such cholera hospital, so esta- blished as aforesaid, any person infected with the said disease, and consenting to be removed from his or her habitation, and to place in any such house of observation as aforesaid, any person or persons whom, in the opinion of two medical practitioners, signified by a certificate in writing under their hands, it may be necessary or proper to remove from com- munication with infected persons, or from confined and crowded situations : but if such select vestries, or parish vestries, shall not agree and determine, by a majority of the votes of the members or in- habitants then present, taken in the usual and ordi- nary manner of voting at such vestries, that it is salutary and expedient to confer such powers upon the Boards of Health appointed for such parishes or places respectivelv, then it is ordered and enjoined, that no such authority or powers shall be claimed or exercised by any Board of Health in any parish or place, except when such and any other authority and powers shall, upon due considera- tion of the premises, be conferred and given to any such Boards of Health by any Order or Orders to be made by the Lords and others of His Ma- jesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, certified under the hand of one of the Clerks in Ordinary of the Privy Council : And for the discharge and payment of all such expences, not exceeding an ascertained and specified amount, to be in every case fixed and declared by such select or parish vestries, and which shall be reasonably and properly incurred by any Board of Health, so constituted and empowered as aforesaid, in the execution of their trust, and in carrying into effect this Order of the Lords and others of the Privy Council, it shall be lawful for all such Boards of Health, and they are hereby authorised and directed to make application, by their chairman or secretary, to some justice of the peace living in or near the parish or division, to make an order in writing upon the parish officers, or district church- wardens of the parish or place, commanding them to pay a certain specified sum of money for such purpose out of the rates levied, or next thereafter to be levied, for the relief of the poor of such parish or place, which order every such justice of the peace (all previous accounts of any such Board of Health having been regularly kept, verified and allowed in the manner hereinafter directed before any second or further order is made) is hereby required and enjoined to make in pursuance and exercise of the power vested in him by the before recited Act : And it is hereby further ordered, that the secre- tary or clerk of all such Boards of Health, so con- stituted and empowered as aforesaid, shall and do keep a full, true, and complete account in writing, fairly entered in a book to be kept for that purpose, of all sums of money by such Board received, laid out, and expended, and also of all goods, chattels, furniture, apparel, and other necessaries purchased by such Boards, for the use of any cholera hospital or