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This recommendation was adopted, and the appointment
of Mr. Cooper to the post was confirmed at the ensuing
vestry meeting.
On Saturday, the 21st July, the Privy Council, in virtue
of the powers vested in them by the 5th clause of the
Diseases’ Prevention Act, 1855, issued directions to the
Vestries and Boards of the Metropolis. The fact that the
order in council had been issued was first made known
to the Vestry and to myself by means of the daily papers
early in the following week; but already I had, after
consultation with the Vestry Clerk, got a Special Meeting
of the Sewers and Sanitary Committee called for the
evening of the 27th. The order in council was fully discussed
at that meeting, and a scheme of action, in accordance
with the directions contained in that order, was
drawn up to be presented to a Special Meeting of the
Vestry, convened for the purpose of considering it on the
31st.
At this meeting it was determined, with the object of
carrying out the order in council:— first, that a printed
bill, giving brief hygienic directions with regard to cholera
and diarrhoea, should be extensively circulated:— 2nd, that
a circular letter (together with a sufficient number of
printed forms and stamped envelopes) which had already
been prepared, should be sent to all the Medical
Practitioners living in the Parish, requesing them to give
daily iufonnation in regard to the occurrence of cholera
and of diarrhoea: 3rd, that the vestrymen of each ward
should act as a committee for their own ward, in order to