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     ROYAL GAZETTE. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     with, so far as the circumstances require, do the several 
     
     things hereinafter ordered : 
     
    
   
   
    
     II.— Iern Cholera 2's in an Union or Parish. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1. Every Board shall make arrangements for meeting, in 
     
     districts where the disease is actullay prevailing, daily, either 
     
     in a body or in one or more Committees, according to the 
     
     exigencies of the 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 
     
     Board shall cause proper minutes of all proceedings to be 
     
     made and duly recorded. 
     
    

    
     3. Where the Union or Parish forms part of any town of 
     
     more than 60,000 inhabitants, or contains a. town of more 
     
     than 40,000 inhabitants, according to the report upon the 
     
     last Census, or where several parts of the Union or Parish 
     
     are at one time suffering from Cholera, the Board shall ap- 
     
     point some legally qualified Medical Practitioner to attend 
     
     at the meetings, and render his advice threat, and superin- 
     
     tend all the medical arrangements for preventing. and treat- 
     
     ing the disease. 
     
    

    
     4. In each district in which Cholera is present, or, if the 
     
    
   
   
    
     quantity of work to be done renders it desirable to subdivide - 
     
    
   
   
    
     the district, then in each of such subdivisions. a legally 
     
     qualified Medical Practitioner shall be put in charge of the 
     
     district or subdivision for the medical purposes of these Re- 
     
     gulations; and to each such Medical Practitioner shall be al- 
     
     lotted all needful Medical Assistants as the Board see fit. 
     
    

    
     Such District Medical Practitioner, or one of his Assist- 
     
     ants, shall at once least daily visit those parts of the district 
     
     which are inhabited by the poorer classes, and wherein the 
     
     disease is, and shall there inquire at every house as to the 
     
    

    
     J’existence of Diarrhoea or Cholera, and shall enter in a book 
     
     to be kept for the purpose the facts as to all cases he may 
     
     meet with, and shall without delay give, Or take the preper 
     
     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. be provided 
     
     with medicines for immediate administratiOn in urgent cases. 
     
     and shall be held to be in medical charge of all cases of Di- 
     
     arrhoea or Cholera with which he may meet until he is re- 
     
     lieved by such other provision for their medical attendance 
     
     as may be made or sanctioned by the Board. 
     
    

    
     5. Such Medical Practitioner shall, by transmitting his 
     
     above-required book, or otherwise, report daily to the Board 
     
     of Guardians, or to the Committee of the district for which 
     
     he acts, the results of his own and his Asststants’ inquiries, 
     
     and shall make such suggestions as to the state of the dis- 
     
     trict as he-shall deem advisable. 
     
    

    
     6. In places where the Board oquardians are not the Nui- 
     
     sances 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, employed 
     
     by the Board, shall find any nuisance injurious to health 
     
     existing in any premises visited by them. 
     
    

    
     7. 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 re- 
     
     lief list, and such officer shall forthwith visit the same and 
     
     give such relief as in his judgment the case shall require. 
     
    

    
     8. The Board shall provide a sufficient number of DiSpen- 
     
     saries 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 Ad- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     viser shall recommend, and With a legally qualified Medical 
     
     Practitioner or skilled Assistant alWays in attendace at each; 
     
     and such medicines, medical appliances and disinfectants, 
     
     shall be diSpensed without charge by such Medical Practi- 
     
     tioner or Assistant to persons bringing orders tor the same 
     
     from the District Medical Practitioners and to other persons 
     
     who apply for immediate medical treatment. And the names 
     
     and addresses of all such appticants shall be sent to the Dis. 
     
     trict Medical Practitioner of the place in which they reside. 
     
    
   
   
    
     9. In every case ofCholera or Diarrhoea, where the pa- 
     
     tient is not under medical care and treatment, the Board 
     
     shall cause medical assistance to be rendered with the utmost- 
     
     expedition, and such aid and comfort. nourishment and ac-' 
     
     commodation, as the circumstances of the case will admit, 
     
     with the object of restoring health. _ 
     
    

    
     10. The Board shall provide competent Nurses to aid 
     
     every District Medical Practitioner in his attendance upon 
     
     the patients suffering from the disease. 
     
    

    
     11. When the Medical Adviser recommends. the Board 
     
     shall, with as much despatch as practicable. provide fit and- 
     
     proper accommodation for the reception 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, fur» 
     
     niture, and other things necessary for the emcrgency,.andi 
     
     shall appoint a legally qualified Medical Practitioner, with, 
     
     or without Assistant, as the case may require, to attend to 
     
     the same. 
     
    

    
     12. If Cholera or Choleraic Diarrhoea exists in any dwell- 
     
     ing whereof the Medical Practitioner reports that the sick 
     
     and healthy cannot therein be properly separated, the Board 
     
     shall forthwith cause adeguate accommodation to be procured 
     
     for the reception of the healthy; and, when the Medical 
     
     Practitioner recommends that the sick person shall not be 
     
     removed, but that the healthy shall be remeVed. from the 
     
     same roomin which the sick person is lying, the Board shall 
     
     cause the other inmates of such room to be removed to some 
     
     convenient place ofreception. 
     
    

    
     13. The Board shall, in dwellings where Cholera or Di» 
     
     arrheea exists, cause proper disinfectants to be used in sufii» 
     
     cient quantities for the purpose ofdisintecting 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. 
     
    

    
     14. The Board shall cause every article of clothing, bed~ 
     
     ding. or furniture which shall have been infected with any. 
     
     such discharge, and which they shall find incapable of being 
     
     speedily disinfected, to be forthwith destroyed; the Board 
     
     within a reasonable time replacing all such articles, or- 
     
     paying the reasonable Value to the owner. 
     
    

    
     15. If it be shown to the Board that any drinking-water 
     
     used in their 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 district, and for pre- 
     
     venting, as far as possible, the further use of the polluted 
     
     water. And every Board owning or having possession of 
     
     any waterworks for the supply of water shall cause the rest-rm 
     
     voirs, cisterns, pipes, pumps, and other apparatus belonging. 
     
     thereto, to be carefully examined, cleansed. and purified, and; 
     
     other necessary measures to be taken. so that the water may; 
     
     be supplied without impurity. 
     
    

    
     16. The Board shall make due arrangements with under- 
     
     takers, and with the proper authorities of the churchyards,buri-» 
     
     al-grounds and cemeteries of their district, so that cofiins may 
     
     be ready to be supplied immediately on demand, and inter- 
     
     ments speedily take place in the, cases of deaths arising from