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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    lawful for such Boards of Health, and they are hereby invested with authority and powtff, under and by virtue of this Order of the Lords of the Privy Council (of whom the Lord President of the Council is-one), to execute every one of such respective powers as shall be so conferred upon them as afore- said (to wit); upon receiving a certificate in writing, signed by two medical practitioners, of the existence of any offensive impurities, dangerous to the public health, within any house, or within twenty yards of any house or habitation, by themselves, then- servants, or others of the'King’s subjects, to enter any dwelling-house, hut, or cabin in any street, lane, court, alley, gateway, passage, or place in any cit)-, 'town, division, or district, and at some, seasonable time (regard being always had to the convenience of •the inmates thereof), to wash, scour, cleanse, white- wash, and fumigate the same, and to empty and dean out the cellars thereof, and to clear, cleanse, and purify ali the sink-holes and drains thereof, and also to remove all swine out of any dwelling-house, ’ hut, or cabin to any adjoining hog-stye, when and so soon as such sufficient styes shall have been pro- vided for the reception of the same at the expencc -of the parish: and with power to enter upon the ‘ lands or grounds of any person or persons, bodies politic, corporate, or collegiate, and to remove, take and carry away all decayed fruits, vegetables, and garden-stuff, all putrid fish, and any other corrupt or offensive and dangerous matter or thing, placed, deposited, or kept within twenty yards of any house or habitation ; also to give notice to the owner or occupier of any slaughter-house in any city, town, or populous district, to remove, take and carry away any refuse, offal, garbage, filth, or sweepings of such slaughter house, and to effectually wash and cleanse the same ; and if such filth shall not be re- moved/ or shall >not.be commenced or set about to be removed, within one hour after such notice, then •with full power and: authority to enter every such • slaughter-house and to remove, take and carry away all such off?.!, and all other rubbish and filth whatso- • ever : also with authority to appoint ope or more such medical inspectors as aforesaid, to visit all lodg- • ing-houSes used and kept for the reception oftranip- ers and-vagrarits, once daily, at some seasonable hour, and to inquire into and report upon the condition of the sam-, and the state of health of the persons congregated therein, and the number of persons who have died of the said disease ; and all such medical inspectors, so appointed as aforesaid, are hereby authorised and empowered to enter every such house for the purposes aforesaid, at the time and in the manner hereinbefore mentioned : and with further powers for the said Boards of Health to open, cleanse, and scour any such drains, ditches, water- courses, soughs, gutters, and cesspools, and to close and cover any such open drains, ditches, and cess- pools, as a majority of the said meetings in burghs and vestries shall agree to be offensive and dan- gerous, and to require such cleansing or covering respectively, and to have the consent of such meet- ing, or of a majority thereof, to the undertaking ami engaging to cleanse and cover the same at the parish expence ; the entire expence of the opening and cleansing, or of the closing and covering, of any such drain, ditch, or pool respectively, in no case exceed- ing fifty pounds for the complete accomplishment of the same ; provided always, that nothing in this Order contained shall be taken or held to extend to any drains, ditches, watercourses, soughs,gutters, and cess- pools, being within tire jurisdiction of the Commis- sioners of sewers, or of trustees, or others having authority over the making or management of sewers; provided also, that the owner of the soil shall in every such case agree and consent to the scouring and cleansing, or closing and covering of the same : and with full permission and authority for every such Board of Health to purchase, inclose, and fence suitable lands for burial-grounds and cemetries, to be used by all parishes in any city or town which shall agree to contribute a rateable proportion to the providing of such burying-grounds- for cholera patients ; provided always, that no lands used for any such interment shall be after- wards applied to any profane use, for the space of ten years then next ensuing : and when and so soon as any such Boards of Health, so authorised and, empowered as aforesaid, shall have procured any such burying-grounds, without the walls, limits, or bounds of any city or town, but within a reason- able and convenient distance of the same, and shall have made all the necessary provisions and arrange- ments foijtbe interment of bodies therein,then in every such case the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honour- able .Privy Council (of whom the Lord President of the Council is one), do hereby strictly forbid, prohibit, and interdict the interment of any person whomsoever, certified by a medical practitioner, to have died of the said disease of spasmodic, or Indian cholera, within the said city, in any church, church- yard, chapel, chapel-yard^ cemetery, vault, burying- ground, or other place whatever used for the re- ception of dead bodies within the walls, limits, and- -i.