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the necessary nourishment and comforts to be supplied. (0. of C. II. 8.)
All bedding and clothing destroyed by their orders were immediately
replaced, or their value paid in money. And in obedience to the order
of Council, cases of destitution observed by the Medical Visitors were
reported to the parochial authorities. (O. of C. II. 6.)
The Committee entered into an engagement with the Necropolis
Company to remove and inter the body of any poor person who had
died of Cholera. Such bodies were taken within a few hours to the
mortuary of the Company in the Westminster Road, and were speedily
interred at the Cemetery at Woking. (0. of C. II. 15-17.)
The Committee were assisted towards the end of the epidemic in
closing their Dispensaries and the Hospital by the Medical Officers of
the Workhouse and the Bloomsbury Dispensary.
In rendering this account of the action taken under the order of
Council and the instructions of the Board, the Committee are pleased
to record that the poorer inhabitants of the District, upon whom the
danger of the epidemic almost entirely fell, showed themselves throughout
grateful for the care that was taken by the Committee. They were
very accessible to the visitors, and generally attentive to their advice;
in a larger proportion of cases than might have been expected they
allowed the removal of their friends to the Hospital, in spite of their
natural preference for attending them at home; and they offered no
obstruction to the Committee in the action which it was thought right
to take respecting disinfection, destruction of clothing and speedy
interment of the dead.
RICHARD CULL, F.S.A.,
Chairman.
12th February, 1867.