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     Now, therefore. in exercise of the powers conferred upon 
     
     them by the above named Acts, the Lords of the Council- 
     
     order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows, that is to say: 
     
    
   
   
    
     l.—Prelz'm2'7zary. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Forthwith on the issuing of the present regulations, the 
     
     Clerk of every Vestry or District Board (as the case may be) 
     
     under the Act of the Session holden in the eighteenth and 
     
     nineteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and 
     
     twenty, shall summon a special meeting of the Vestry or 
     
     Board, in order that the present regulations may be brought 
     
     before them, and that the Vestry or Board may make. as 
     
     they are hereby required to do, such preliminary arrange- 
     
     ments as will enable them, if sudden need shall arise, to 
     
     carry the following regulations into immediate effect; and 
     
     the Vestry or Board at such meeting shall direct the Clerk. 
     
     by circular letters of request addressed to all legally qualified 
     
     Medical Practitioners in the parish or district, and in such 
     
     other ways as the Vestry or Board may think necessary, to 
     
     take measures for causing the Vestry or Board to he made 
     
     acquainted with any presence of Cholera or unusual amount 
     
     or severity of Diarrhoea in the parish or district. or any 
     
     part of it, if such be existing or should thereafter exist. and 
     
     the Vestry or Board if apprised of any such presence of 
     
     Cholera or Diarrhoea shall thereupon forthwith, so far as the 
     
     circumstances require, do the several things hereinalter 
     
     ordered: 
     
    
   
   
    
     IL— W/zen Cholera 2's in a Paris}; or Disirict. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1. Every Vestry or Board shall make arrangements for P 
     
    
   
   
    
     meeting, where the disease is actually prevailing, daily, 
     
     either in a body or in one or more Committees, according to. 
     
     the exigencies of the Parish or District, for the purpose of 
     
     exercising the powers conferred upon them by the Act. 
     
     2. The meetings may be held at the ordinary Board-room, 
     
     . and where necessary, at such other places as shall appear to 
     
     be most convenient for dealing with the disease, and the 
     
     . Vestry or Beard shall cause proper minutes of all proceed- 
     
     ings to be made and duly recorded. 
     
    

    
     3. The Medical Officer of Health shall, as far as practi- 
     
     cable, attend the meetings of the Vestry or Board, and of 
     
     its Committees, to render his advice thereat. and shall 
     
     superintend all the medical arrangements for preventing and 
     
     treating the disease. . 
     
    

    
     4. In each Parish or Districtin which Cholera is present, 
     
     or, if the quantity of work to be done renders it desirable to 
     
     subdivide the parish or district. then in each of such subdio 
     
     visions, a legally qualified Medical Practitioner shall be put 
     
     in charge of the Parish or District or subdivision for the 
     
     medical purposes of these Regulations; and to each such 
     
     Medical Practitioner (hereinafter named the Medical Visitor) 
     
     zhall be allotted such Assistants as the Vestry or Board see 
     
    

    
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     Such Medical Visitor, where practicable, or, in other 
     
     cases, one of his Assistants, shall at least once daily visit 
     
     those places assigned to him which are inhabited by the 
     
     power classes and wherein the disease is, and shall there in- 
     
     quire at every house as to the existence of Diarrhoea or 
     
     Cholera, and shall enter in a book to be kept for the pur- 
     
     pose the facts as to all cases he may meet with, and shall 
     
     without delay give, or take the proper steps for causing to 
     
     be given, all necessary medical assistance to the sick. And 
     
     the Medical Visitor or Assistant shall, when visiting the 
     
     places assigned to him, be provided with medicines for im- 
     
     mediate administration in urgent cases, and shall be held to 
     
     be in medical charge of all cases of Diarrhoea or Cholera 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     provision for their medical attendance as may be made or 
     
     sanctibned by the Vestry or Board. 
     
    

    
     5. Such Medical Visitor shall, by transmitting his above 
     
     required boolz, or otherwise, report daily to the Medical 
     
     Olficer of Health the result of his own and his Assistants" 
     
     inquiries, and shall report any nuisances which he or ,they 
     
     find existing in any premises visited by him or them, and 
     
     shall make such suggestions as to the state of the parish or 
     
     district as he shall deem advisable. 
     
    

    
     6. The Visitors shall, where they find it expedient, com» 
     
     municate to the Relieving Officer of the district any case of 
     
     destitution requiring relief, which is not entered in his relief 
     
     list ; and such olfieer shall forthwith visit the same and give 
     
     such relief as in his judgment the case shall require. 
     
    

    
     7. The Vestry or Board shall provide a suflicient number 
     
     of Dispensaries, to be open night and day, at convenient: 
     
     places within their parish or district, with an adequate 
     
     supply of such medicines, medical appliances and disinfect- 
     
     ants, as their Medical Oflicer of Health shall recommend, 
     
     and with a legally qualified Medical Practitioner or skilled 
     
     Assistant alw-ays in attendance at each; and such medicines, 
     
     medical appliances and disinfectants, shall be dispensed with- 
     
     out charge by such Medical Practitioner or Assistant to 
     
     persons bringing orders for the same from the Medical 
     
     Visitors, and to other persons who apply for immediate 
     
     medical treatment. And the names and addresses of all such 
     
     applicants shall he sent to the Medical Visitor of the place 
     
     in which they reside. 
     
    

    
     S. In every case of Cholera or Diarrhoea, where the 
     
     atient is not under medical care and treatment, the Vestry 
     
     or Board shall ciuse medical assistance to be rendered with 
     
     the utmost expedition, and such aid and comfort, nourish- 
     
     ment and accommodation. as the circumstances of the case 
     
     will admit, with the object of restoring health. 
     
    

    
     9. The Vestry or Board shall provide competent Nurses 
     
     to aid every Medical Visitor in his attendance upon the 
     
     patients suffering from the disease. 
     
    

    
     10. When the Medical Oflicer of Health recommends, 
     
     the Vestry or Board shall, with as much despatch as prac— 
     
     ticahle, provide fit and proper accommodation for the recep- 
     
     tion of such patients as have no home, or cannot properly 
     
     be treated at home, and may with advantage to themselves 
     
     be removed, and shall cause the same to be provided with 
     
     all appliances, medicines, furniture, and other things 
     
     necessary for the emergency, and shall appoint a legally 
     
     qualified Medical Practitioner, with or without Assistant, as 
     
     the case may require, to attend to the same. 
     
    

    
     ll. If Cholera or Choleraic Diarrhoea exist in any 
     
     dwelling whereof the Medical Oflicer of Health reports that 
     
     the sick and healthy cannot therein be properly separated, 
     
     the Vestry or Board shall forthwith cause adequate accom- 
     
     modation to be procured for the reception of the healthy; 
     
     and when the Medical Oflicer of Health recommends that 
     
     the sick person shall not be removed, but that the healthy 
     
     shall be removed from the same room in which the sick 
     
     person is lying, the Vestry or Board shall cause the other 
     
     inmates of such room to be removed to some convenient 
     
     place of reception. 
     
    

    
     12. The Vestry or Board shall, in dwellings where 
     
     Cholera or Diarrhoea exists, cause proper'disinfectauts to be 
     
     used in suflicient quantities for the purpose of disinfecting 
     
     the discharges from the sick, and the bedding. clothing, and 
     
     other things thereby infected, and the utensils and privies 
     
     in which such discharges may have been received. 
     
    
   
   
    
     13. The Vestry or Board shall cause every article of 
     
     clothing. bedding, or furniture which shall have been infected 
     
    
   
   
    
     with which he may meet until he is rtlicvcd by such other lwith any such discharge, and which they shall find incapable