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APPENDIX V.
PLUMSTEAD VESTRY.
Precautions against Fever, Diarrhœa, &c.
1. Use absolute cleanliness in your person.
2. Keep your windows open.
3. Burn all your house refuse that can be burnt, and see that the
remainder is regularly removed; if it is not removed at the right time
complain to the Sanitary Inspector, Vestry Hall, Maxey Road.
4. No pail, box, or other receptacle is to be placed with refuse in front
of the house, except a Metal Reccptacle with Cover on.
Note.—The Dust Contractor is bound to call for Dust once a week.
The Dustmen are liable to a fine of Twenty Shillings if they
demand any fee or gratuity for removing any house refuse
from any premises.
5. Keep your house clean, and if there is any insanitary condition that
you cannot remove, complain to your landlord; if he does not attend to
it, complain at the Vestry Hall, Maxey Road.
6. Plush your Water Closets (which are connected with Sewers) with
two or three pails of water every Saturday at 11 o'clock in the morning,
If all do it at the same time it will flush the combined drains and sewers
also.
7. Boil all your milk.
8. Avoid strong alcoholic drinks, indigestible food, unripe and decaying
fruit, fish and meat not perfectly fresh.
9. Do not neglect Diarrhœa or other signs of ill health, but apply at
once for medical assistance.
Signed, by order of the Vestry,
SIDNEY DAVIES, M.D. Oxon., D.P.H. Cambridge,
Medical Officer of Health for Plumttead.