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Cholera. Early in the year the possibility of cholera
becoming epidemic in the district engaged our attention
and in April we presented the following report to your
Sanitary Committee:—
THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE WANDSWORTH
DISTRICT.
To the Sanitary Committee.
CHOLERA.
Gentlemen,
The Local Government Board in their circular letter of
August 25th, 1892, on the above subject, stated that in the event
of an outbreak of Cholera in London, they would issue Regulations
under section 134 of the Public Health Act, 1875, whereby they
would impose on the Sanitary Authority the duty of making
arrangements for the prevention and treatment of Cholera, and
among the arrangements would be comprised the visitation of
poorer houses for the purpose of detecting Cholera and Diarrhœa,
the supply of medical attendance and medicine, nursing, and disinfectants,
the destruction of infected clothing; the disinfection of
houses ; and tho prompt interment of the dead. The arrangements
would also include the provision of such additional accommodation
in hospitals and " places of refuge " as might be necessary for the
several parishes and districts, the hospitals being provided for the
reception of those Cholera patients who could not be properly
treated at their own homes, the "places of refuge" for the
lodgment of those persons not actually sick, but whom it might be
right to keep under observation, or to accommodate while their
house was undergoing disinfection, or devoted to a sick person who
could not properly be removed. It therefore becomes necessary to
be prepared with the following arrangements in accordance with
the regulations referred to, viz.: —
1.—Hospital accommodation. 2.—Places of refuge. 3.—Visitation
of the poorer houses. 4.—Medical attendance. 5.—Nurses,
nourishments, &c. 6.—Disinfection of houses. 7.—Destruction of
infected clothing. 8.—Prompt interment of the dead.
1. With regard to hospital accommodation we do not now report,
as the question is under the consideration of the several Local
Committees,