Cholera. Copy letter, secretary to the Board of Supervision for the Relief of the Poor, to Dr Smith, president of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, requesting suggestions for the guidance of visitors engaged in house-to-house visitation.

  • Smith John president R.C.P.E., 1865-1867.
Date:
1866
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    CHOLERA )opy Letter, Secretary to the Board of Supervision for the Relief of the Poor, to Dr Smith, Presi- dent of the Royal College of Physicians, Edin- burgh, REQUESTING SUGGESTIONS FOR THE GUIDANCE of Visitors engaged in House-to-house Visitation. Sir, If Asiatic Cholera, which has already appeared in •several parts of Scotland, should invade any of the more extensive rrural parishes, it is probable that in a great number, if not in a i najority of cases, a considerable time may elapse after, the first i ndications of the disease before medical attendance can be • obtained, and it appears to the Board that it might be of great importance that the intelligent residents in each parish should not only be provided with such remedies as it may be deemed proper to entrust to them, in order that they may be administered when necessary, but that such persons should'be furnished with simple and easily intelligible rules for their guidance, in treating cases for which- medical attendance cannot immediately be ob- tained. The Board would therefore be much obliged to you if you would move the Royal College of Physicians to take the matter into their consideration with as little delay as possible, and to favour the Board with such recommendations as the Royal College may consider best suited for the occasion. M. & G.—4000—Aug. 1866.