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STGIL 14
1866
THE BOARD OF WORKS
FOR THE
Saint Giles's District.
GENERAL REPORT of the Sanitary Committee
of their proceedings under the Orders of the
Privy Council of the 21st July last, and the
Resolution of the Board of the 24th July last,
on the outbreak of the Cholera in the District.
Cholera appeared in London in its epidemic form at the beginning
of July. It affected the Eastern Districts first, and with greatest
violence. The deaths from it registered each week in the Metropolis
are given in an appended Table (I) side by side with the mortality of
corresponding weeks in the two preceding epidemics.
On July 15th, an Order of Council declared the Diseases
Prevention Act to be in force throughout the kingdom, and on July
21st a further order gave instructions as to the measures to be adopted
in places where epidemic Cholera or Diarrhoea prevailed.
On July 24th, the Board of Works instructed the Sanitary Committee
to consider and carry into effect the Orders of Council, and gave
the Committee power to incur such expense as might be necessary in
carrying out the same.
Precautionary Action.— Next day the Committee met, and
adopted means for detecting every case of Cholera and Diarrhoea at its
earliest stages, for affording the promptest medical assistance to all