Cholera : orders, directions, and regulations of the Privy Council, under the Diseases Prevention Acts, and memoranda by their Medical Officer, with the particulars of the treatment recommended by the Royal College of Physicians, at the request of the Privy Council, and an introductory summary / by J.B. Hutchins.

  • Hutchins, J. B. (James B.)
Date:
1866
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Credit: Cholera : orders, directions, and regulations of the Privy Council, under the Diseases Prevention Acts, and memoranda by their Medical Officer, with the particulars of the treatment recommended by the Royal College of Physicians, at the request of the Privy Council, and an introductory summary / by J.B. Hutchins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    give, or take the proper steps for causing- to be given, all necessary medical assistance to the sick. And the Medical Practitioner or Assistant shall, when visiting- the part assigned to him, he provided with medicines for immediate administration in urgent cases, and shall be held to be in medical charge of all cases of Diarrhoea or Cholera with which he may meet until he is relieved by such other provision for their medical attendance as may be made or sanctioned by the Board. Their Report. 6. Sucli Medical Practitioner shall, by transmitting liis above-required book, or otherwise, report daily to the Board of Guardians, or to the Committee of the district for which lit acts, the result of his own and his Assistants' inquiries and shall make such suggestious as to the state of the district as he shall deem advisable. Board to report Nuisances. 6. In places where the Board of Guardians are not the Nuisances Removal Authority, the Board shall, without delay, cause report to be made to such Authority, and, if the Board see fit, shall complain to the justices of every case where any Committee, Medical Practitioner or Assistant, emijloyed by the Board, shall find any nuisance injurious to health existing in any premises visited by them. - Visitors to report Cases of Destitution to the Relieving Officer. 7. The Visitors shall, where they find it expedient, communicate to the Relieving- Officer of the district any case of destitution requiring relief, which is not entered in his relief list, and such Officer shall forthwith visit the same and give such relief as in his judgment the case shall require. Board to provide Dispensary and Stations. 8. The Board shall provide a sufficient number of Dispensaries, to be open night and day, at convenient places within their district, with an adequate supply of such medicines, medical appliances and disinfectants, as their medical adviser shall recommend, and with a legally qualified Medical Practitioner or skilled assistant always in attendance at each; and such medicines, medical apphances and disinfectants, shall be dispensed without charge by such Medical Practitioner or Assistant to persons bringing orders for the same from the District Medical Practitioners and to other persons who apply for imme- diate medical treatment. And the names and addresses of all such applicants shall be sent to the District Medical Practitioner of the place in which they reside. Board to supply Medical aid to poor Cholera Patients. 9. In every case of Cholera or Diarrhcen, where the patient is not uudew medicrtl care and treatment, the Board shall cause medical assistance to be|