Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1899
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in a Memo, dated the 21st day of July, 1866, as
under:—
"When the Medical Officer of Health recom"mends,
the vestry or board shall, with as much
"dispatch as practicable, provide jit 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, furniture, and other things neces"sary
for the emergency, and shall appoint a
"legally qualified medical practitioner, with or
"without assistant, as the case may require, to
"attend to the same.
"If cholera or choleraic diarrhoea exist in
"any dwelling u-hereof the Medical Officer of
"Health reports that the sick and healthy cannot
"therein be properly separated, the vestry or
"board shall forthwith cause adequate accom"modation
to be procured for the reception of
"the healthy; and, when the Medical Officer of
"Health recommends that the sick person shall