.7. J. A .-r»_.»....«.___ .L... _. _. of being speedily disinfected, to be forthwith destroyed, the Vestry or Board within a reasonable time replacing all such articles or paying the reasonbalc value to the. owner. 14. If it be shown to the Vestry or lionrd that any drinking-water used in their Parish or District is polluted, they shall take measures, with as much expedition as possible, for procuring wholesome water to be supplied in its stead, so far as the case requires. to the inmates of the houses in their Parish or District, and for preventing. as far as possible, the further use of the polluted water. And every Vestry or Board owning or having possession of any waterworks for the supply of water shall cause the reservoirs, cistern, pipes, pumps, and other apparatus belonging thereto, to be carefully examined, cleansed and purified, and other necessary mea. sures to be taken, so that the water may be supplied without impurity. 15. The Vestry or Board shall make due arrangements with undertakcrs, and with the prOper authorities of the churcliyards, burial-grounds, and cemeteries of their parish or district, so that collins may be ready to be supplied im- mediately on demand, and interments speedily take place in the cases of deaths arising from Cholera or Diarrhoea; and .the Vestry or Board shall, when informed of any such death, causo the corpse to be buried with the earliest possible despateh. 16. Where any death shall occur from Cholera or Cho- leraic Diarrhoea, no collection of" persons shall assemble in the room where the corpse is, and no “ waking ” of the dead shall be allowed. 17. The Vestry or 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 adopted for preventing the spread of infec- tion from the corpse as their Medical Otlicer ol llcalth shall recommend. 18. The. Clerk of the Vestry or Board shall, every Monday, send by post to the Medical Oiliccr of the Privy (.Iouucil a return of the number ofnew cases of Diarrhoea. or (,l'uoiera which have during the week ended on Saturday midnight last come under the cognizance of the. Vestry or Board, and of the number of' recoveries, and the number of deaths. with such other particulars as such Medical ()fiicer shall from time to time require. The return shall be in the following form, or to the like cficct :—-- Paris/z. or District. lifestka Return of Cases of 01202072 or Diarrhoea for the Week ending on Saturday last. New attacks during the week . . . . . Deaths during the week , . . . . , . . Recovered during the week . . . . . . Total number of cases now under treatment . Date 1867. ( Signed)————--——- Clerk to the Vestry or Board. it). The Vestry or 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 corners or occupiers of property within their parish or 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 afl'ord aid to persons attacked with Cholera or Diarrhoea, or for the carrying of these regulations into execution, and in- form the public what special arrangements have been made ' ROYAL GAZETTE. 31 "w ‘H r for affording medical or other assistance in the parish or district. :20. All Ofiicers, Assistants, and Servants of the Vestry or Board are ordered, and all Medical Practitioners and other persons inhabiting within the parish or district of the. VeStry or Board are requested, to supply information and to give their aid to the utmost of their ability to the Vestry or Board in the execution of these regulations and directions. (Signed) EDMUND HARRISON. At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 10th day of January, 1867. B 3/ the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Councir‘. ransom :‘ . Lord President, Mr. Secretary Walpole, Mr. Corry, Mr. Gathorne Hardy. XI, HEREAS the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honour- able Privy Council, by an Order made this 10th day of January, 1867, in exercise ofthe powers given by “ The Diseases Prevention Act, 1855,” and the Amending Act of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of Her Majesty, chapter seventy-seven, and of every other power enabling them in that behalf, did order and direct that the provisions contained in the said Acts for the prevention of diseases should, from and after the date of that Order, be and be continued in force within the whole and every part of Eng- land and all parts and arms of the sea lying within the juris- diction of the Admiralty within three miles of the coasts of England, for the period: of six calendar months from the date of that. Order, and that certain recited orders then in? existence and therein more particularly referred to, should be renewed accordingly for such period as aforesaid; And whereas the Lords of Her Majesty’s Privy Council have thought fit, under the authority conferred upon them by the said first cited Act and all other Acts in such behalf, to issue certain directions and regulations, to be in force in all Unions and Parishes of England not. within the Metro- polis, and in arms of the sea lying withinthe jurisdiction of the Admiralty, solong as the provisions aforesaid shall be in force under the said Order ;- 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:— I.——Prelz'mz'nary. Forthwith on the issuing of the present Regulations, the - Clerk of every Board of Guardians shall summon a special creating of the Board, in order that; the present regulations may be brought before them, and that the Boardmay make, as they are hereby required to do, such preliminary ar- rangements as will enable them, if sudden need shall arise. to carry the following regulations into immediate effect; and the Board at such meeting shall direct the Clerk, by in- structions to the Medical Officers, and by circular letters of request addressed to all legally qualified Medical Practi- tioners in the Union or Parish. and in such Other ways as the Board may think necessary. to take measures for causing the Board to be made acquainted with any presence of Cholera or unusual amount or severity of Diarrhoea in the Union or Parish, or any part of it, if such be existing or should thereafter exist: and the Board if apprised of any such presence of Cholera or Diarrhoea shall thereupon forth‘