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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    Board to publish Notices. 2-2. The Board shall, from time to time, as they shall find expedient, issue, publish and distribute in placards, hand-bills or other communications, such admonitory notices to the owners and occupiers of property within their district as to the provisions of the Acts for the Removal of Nuisances as shall appear to be requisite, and in a like manner publish all such medical advice and such directions and instructions as in their judgment shall be necessary to afford aid to persons attacked with Cholera or Dian-hcea, or for the carrying of these Regulations into execution, and inform the public what special arrangements have been made for affording medical or other assistance in the district. General Order and Exhortation for aid to the Board. 23. All Officers, Assistants, and Servants of the Board are ordered, and all Medical Practitioners and other jiersons inhabiting within the district of the Board are requested, to supply information and give their aid to the utmost of their ability to the Board in the execution of these Regulations and Directions. Provision for Parishes not in Union or under a Board of Guardians. 24. In Parishes and Townships not comprised in a Union or under a separate Board of Guardians, the Clerk, Governor, or the Overseers, as the case may be, shall, so far as they can, according to the extent and circumstances of their Parish or Township, carry the foregoing Regulations into execution. Interpretation Clause, 25. The word Union, as used herein, shall be taken to include not only a Union of Parishes formed under the provisions of an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King WiUiam the Fourth, entitled An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales, but also any union of Parishes incorporated or united for the relief or maintenance of the poor under any Local Act of Par- liament. And the word Guardians, as used herein, shall be taken to include not only Guardians appointed or entitled to act under the provisions of the said last- mentioned Act, but also any Governors, Directors, Managers, or Acting Guar- dians entitled to act in the ordering of relief to the poor from the Poor Rates xmder any Local Act of Parliament. ARTHUR HELPS.