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     VI. “ From time to time after the issuing of any such 
     
     :7 rder as aforesaid. and whilst the same continues in force, 
     
     'il)6 General Board of Health may issue directions and re- 
     
     gulations, as the said Board may think fit— 
     
    

    
     E'or the speedy interment of the dead: 
     
    

    
     For house to house visitation : 
     
    

    
     For the dispensing of medicines, guarding against the 
     
     Spread ofdisettse, and nfin‘ding to persons afiiicted by 
     
     or threatened with such epidemic, endemic. or contagi- 
     
     ous diseases such medical aid and such accommodation 
     
     as may be required: 
     
    

    
     food from time to time, in like manner, may revoke. renew, 
     
     1nd alter any such directions and regulations as to the said 
     
     ilt’iard appears expedient, to extend to all parts in which the 
     
     provisions of this Act for the prevention of disease shall for 
     
     be time being be put in force under such Orders aforesaid, 
     
     unless such directions and regulations be expressly confined 
     
     to some of such parts, and then to such parts as therein are 
     
     specified; and (subject to the power ot'revocation and alter- 
     
     ation herein contained) such directions and regulations shall 
     
     continue in force so long as the said provisions of this Act 
     
     snail, under such Order, be applicable to the same parts.” 
     
    

    
     Kl. " Orders in Council issued in pursuance of this Act 
     
    

    
     for putting 'in force the provisions for the prevention of 
     
     «tisease in the said Nuisances Removal and Diseases Pre- 
     
     vention Acts contained, in Great Britain, may extend to 
     
     parts and arms of the sen lying within the jurisdiction of 
     
     the Admiralty; and the Board of Health for England may 
     
     issue under this Act directions and regulations for cleansing, 
     
     purifying, ventilating, and disinfecting, and providing 
     
     medical aid and accommodation, and preventing disease in 
     
     niti"S and Vessels, as well upon arms and parts of the sea 
     
     aforesaid as upon inland waters.” 
     
    

    
     Ac'l whereas, by “ The Public Health Act, 1858,” 
     
    

    
     {subsequently made perpetual), it is (among other things) 
     
     enacted (so ticns one and seven) as follows :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     I. “ in addition to the powers vested in Her Majesty’s 
     
     Elect Honourable Privy Council for the protection of the 
     
     public health, all powers now vested in the General Board 
     
     1? Health under ‘ The Diseases Prevention Act, 1855.’ shall, 
     
     upon the dis'éontinuancc of the said Board, be vested in the 
     
     said Privy Council, and the provisions of the said Act having 
     
     reference to the General Beard of Health and the regulations 
     
     and directions issued by them, except section. thirteen, shall 
     
     be construed as referring to such Privy Council, and the re- 
     
     :gulatious and directions issued by them : 
     
    
   
   
    
     VII. “All powers vested in the Privy Council by this 
     
     Act may be exercised by any three or more of the Lords 
     
     not others of the Privy Council, the Vice-President of the 
     
     iffemtnittee of the said Privy Council on Education being 
     
     one of them, and all Orders, Regulations, Directions, and 
     
     Acts 0! the Privy Council under this Act shall be sufficiently 
     
     roads and signifi:d by a written or printed document, signed 
     
     by one of the Clerks of the Privy Council, or such Omcer 
     
      may be appointed by the Privy Council in this behalf; 
     
     and all Orders, Regulations, Directions, and Acts made or 
     
     signified by any written or printed document purporting to 
     
     ice so signed shall be deemed to have been duly made, issued 
     
     :tril done by the Privy Council, and every such document 
     
     shall be received in evidence in all Courts, and before all 
     
     Justices and others without proof of the authOrity or signa- 
     
     ture of such Clerk or other Officer, or other proof what- 
     
     soever. until it be shown that such document was not duly 
     
     signed by the authority of the Privy Council. 
     
    
   
   
    
     And whereas by uThe Sanitary Act, 1866,” it is (among 
     
     an: things) enacted (section fiftyvtwo) as follows:— 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LII. “ Every vessel having on board any person affected 
     
     with a dangerous or infectious disorder shall be deemed to 
     
     be within the provisions of the Act of the sixth year of King 
     
     George the Fourth, chapter seventy-eight, although such 
     
     vessel has not commenced her voyage, or has come from or 
     
     is bound for some place in the United Kingdom; and 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, make such rules, Orders, and regu- 
     
     lations as to them shall seem fit, and every such Order shall 
     
     be certified under the hand of the Clerk in Ordinary of Her 
     
     Majesty’s Privy Council, and shall be publihed in the 
     
     London Gazette. and each publication shall be conclusive 
     
     evidence of such Order to all intents and purposes; and 
     
     such Orders shall be binding and be carried into efl‘ect as 
     
     soon as the same shall have been so published, or at such 
     
     other time as shall be fixed by such Orders, with a view to 
     
     the treatment of persons affected with cholera and epidemic, 
     
     endemic and c0ntagious disease, and preventing the spread 
     
     of cholera and such other diseases. as well on the seas, rivers, 
     
     and waters of the United Kingdom, and! on the high seas 
     
     within three miles of the coasts thereof, as on land ; and to 
     
     declare and determine by what Nuisance Authority or 
     
     Authorities such Orders, Rules, and Regulations shall be 
     
     enforced and executed; and any expenses incurred by such 
     
     Nuisance Authority or Authorities shall be deemed to be 
     
     expenses incurred by it or them in carrying into effect the 
     
     Nuisances Removal Act.” 
     
    

    
     And whereas, by an Order dated the 14th day of July, 
     
     1866, the Lerds of the Council ordered that the provisions 
     
     contained in the Acts for the Prevention of Diseases (there- 
     
     in described), should, from and after the date of that Order, 
     
     be put in force within the whole and every part of England: 
     
    

    
     And whereas, by an Order dated the 25th day of August, 
     
     1866, the Lords of the Council ordered that the said Order 
     
     of the 14th day of July, 1866, should extend. and the same 
     
     was thereby extended to. all parts and arms of the sea lying 
     
     within thejurisdiction of the Admiralty, within three miles 
     
     of the coasts of England : 
     
    

    
     And whereas the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honour- 
     
     able Privy Council did, by an Order bearing date this 10th 
     
     day of January, 1867, order and direct that the provisions 
     
     contained in “The Dtseases Prevention Act. 1-855,” and the 
     
     Act passed in the 2th and 25th years of Her Majesty's 
     
     reign, cap. ’77, l0r 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 England, and all 
     
     parts and arms of the sea lying within the jurisdiction of the 
     
     Admiralty, within three miles of the coasts of England, for 
     
     the period of six calendar months from the date thereof; 
     
     and that the said Orders of the 174th day of July, 1866, and 
     
     the 25th day of August, 1866., should be renewed according- 
     
     ly for such period as aforesaid. 
     
    

    
     And whereas, cholera having broken out in England. it 
     
     seems to the Lords of the Council expedient to make provi- 
     
     sion in pursuance of the recited enactment-s : 
     
    

    
     Now, therefore, the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most 
     
     Honourable Privy Council, by virtue of the powers in this 
     
     behalf by the recited enactments or otherwise in them 
     
     vested, do order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     1. In this Order— 
     
    
   
   
    
     The term “ ship ” includes vessel or boat :- 
     
    

    
     The term " master ” includes the odicer or person hit the 
     
     time being in charge or command of a ship. 
     
    

    
     The term " cholera ” includes choleraic diarrhoea: