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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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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    The London Gazette Of TUESDAY the 28th of FEBRUARY. iJubltfteti bp &utf)orit]L WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1832. AT the Council-Chamber, Whitehall, the 29th day of February 1832. By the Lords of Ills Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council. JIIEREAS by an Act passed in the second year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled “ An Act for the prevention, as far as may be pos- “ sible, of the disease, called the cholera, or spas- “ modic, or Indian cholera, inEngland,” it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the Lords and others of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, or any two or more of them (of whom the Lord President of the Council, or one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State for the time being, shall always be one), by any Order or Orders to be by them from time to time made, to establish, and again, from time to time, by any such . Order or Orders, to revoke, renew, alter, and vary all such rules and regulations, or to substitute any such new rules and regulations, as to them may appear necessary or expedient, for the prevention, as far as may be possible, of the said disease, called the cholera, or spasmodic, or Indian cholera, in England or .Wales, or any part thereof, or for the relief of any persons suffering under, or like to be affected by, the said disease : and whereas the said disease hath ex- tended to different parts of Great Britain : and whereas it doth appear to the Lords and others of His Ma- jesty s Most Honourable Privy Council (of whom the Lord President of the Cduncil is one), neces- sary and expedient, in order to prevent the spread of the said disease, that all Boards of Health established within cities, towns, and districts of England and Wales, and constituted by any Order or Orders of His Majesty’s Privy Council, shall remain and con- tinue in the execution of their respective duties as at present constituted; it is, therefore, ordered by the Lords and others of His Majesty’s Privy Coun- cil (of whom the Lord President of the Council is one), in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in them by the before recited Art, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, that all Boards of Health heretofore established in any city, town, or district of England or Wales, and constituted, appointed, or confirmed by any Order or Orders of His Majesty’s Privy Council, certified under the hand of one of the Clerks in Ordinary of the Privy Council, shall remain and continue as at present constituted; and that all such Boards of Health shall proceed in the execution of the duties to be committed to them, in such form, and according to Ctch regulations, as shall be directed and prescribed by any Order of His Majesty’s Privy Council, so certified as aforesaid. And it is further ordered, that every practitioner of medicine within every city, town, or district, in which every such Board of Health is or shall be constituted by order of the Lords and others of His Majesty’s Privy Council, shall, and he is hereby required and commanded, to make to such Board a daily report under his hand, containing a numerical account of all new cases, deaths, and recoveries of every' person attended by such medical practitioner 'C G re O’?