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Cholera or Diarrhoea, and the Board shall. when informed ofany such death, cause the corpse to be buried with the earliest possible despatch.

17. Where any death shall occur from Cholera or Chol- eraic Diarrhoea, no collection of persons shall assemble in

the room where the corpse is, and no “waking” of the dead, ‘At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 10th day of

shall be allowed.

18. The Board shall cause the immediate removal, from any room which living persons inhabit, of the corpse of'every person dying from Cholera or Choleraic Diarrhoea until the time of its interment, and shall cause such means to be adopt- ed l'or preventing the spread of infection from the corpse as their Medical Adviser shall recommend.

19. The Clerk ofthe Board shall every Monday send by post to the Medical Ofﬁcer of the Privy Council, a Return of the number of new cases of'Diarrhoea or Cholera which have during the week ended on Saturday midnight last come under the cognisance of the Board, and of the number ot'recoveries. and the number of deaths, with such other particulars as such Medical Ofﬁcer shall from time to time require. The Return shall be in the following Form, or to the like eifect :—

Um'orz or Parish.

H’eekly Return of Cases of Cholera or Diarrham for the W'ee/r ending on Saturday last.

New attacks during the week . . , . . . . . Deaths during the Week . . . . . Recovered during the week . . .

Total number of Cases now under treatment

Datc— l867.

(Signed) Clerk to the Board.

20. 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 preperty within their district as to the provisions of the Acts tor the Removal of Nuisan- ces as shall appear to be requisite, and in a like manner pub- lish all such medical advice and such directions and instruc- tions as in their judgment shall be necessary to afford aid to persons attacked with Cholera or Diarrhoea, or for the car- :ying of these regulations into execution, and inform the public what special arrangements have been made for afford- ing medical or other assistance in the district.

21. All Ofﬁcers, Assistants and Servants of the Board are ordered, and all Medical Practitioners and other persons 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.

22. In Parishes and Townships not comprised in a Union or under a separate Board of Guardians, the Clerk, Gover- nor, or the Overseers, as the case may he, shall, so far as they can according to the extent and circumstances of their Parish or Township, carry the foregoing Regulations into execution.

23. The word “ Union,” as used herein, shall be taken to include not only a union of parishes formed under the provi- sions of an Act passed in the ﬁfth year of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled “An. Act for the amend- ment 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 Parliament.

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 Guardi—

, ans entitled to act in the ordering of relief to the poor from

the Poor Rates under any Local Act of Parliament. (Signed) EDMUND HARRISON.

January, 1867. By the Lords ofHer M'ajesty‘s Most Honourable Privy Counciiu

PRESENT :

Lord President.

Mr. Secretary Walpole, Mr. Corry, . Mr. Gathorne Hardy.

‘VHEREAS by an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of King George the Fourth (chapter seventy- eight). “ to repeal the several laws relating to the perform- ance of quarantine, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof,” (section six), the LOrds and others of Her Ma- jesty’s Privy Council, or any two or more of them, are em- powered, in case ofany infectious disease or distemper appear- ing or breaking out in the United Kingdom, 'to make such orders and give such direction in order to cut off all commu- nication between any persons infected with any such disease or distemper and the rest of Her Majesty’s subjects as shall appear to the said Lords or others, or any two or more of them, to be necessary and eXpedient for that purpose; and it is by the same section provided that all such Orders so made by the Lords or others of the Privy Council, or any two or more of them, as aforesaid, shall be as good, valid, and effectual to all intents and purposes, as well with respect to the Commander, Master, or other persons having the . charge of any vessel, and all other persons on board the same, as with respect to any other persons having any inter. course or communication with them, and to the penalties, forfeitures, and punishments to which they may respectively become liable, as any Order or Orders made by Her Ma- jesty, Her heirs or successors, by and with the advice of Her or their Privy Council, concerning quarantine, notiﬁed by Proclamation, or published in the London Gazette: ,

And whereas by “The Diseases Prevention Act, 1855.” it is (among other things), enacted (sections ﬁve, six, and eleven) as follows :—

V. “ Whenever any part of England appears to be threat- ened with, or is affected by, any formidable epidemic, endemic, 0r contagious disease, the Lords and others of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, or any three Or more of them (the Lord President of the Council, or one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State being one), may, by Order or Orders to be by them from time to time made, direct that the provisions herein contained for the prevention of'diseases be put in force in England.or in such parts there— of as in such Order or Orders reSpectively may be expressed. and may from time to time, as to _all or any of the parts to which any such Order or Orders extend, and in like manner revoke or renew any such Order; and subject to revocation and renewal as aforesaid, every such Order shall be in force for six calendar months, or for such shorter period as in such Order shall be expressed; and every such Order of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, or of any members thereof as aforesaid, shall be certiﬁed under the band of the Clerk in Ordinary of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, and shall be published in the London Gazette; and such publication shall be conclusive evidence of such Order, to all intents and purposes.”