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Committee, divided into districts, for the purposes of
medical relief and inspection; and in each District
or Sub-division a medical Practitioner was put in
charge for these duties. As however it was clearly
unnecessary that the systematic visitation should extend
to the whole Parish, it was agreed that each medical
Visitor should confine his attention for this purpose to
those streets within his district in which it appeared to
the Medical Officer of Health most probable that alvine
disorders would prevail. In all such streets, the medical
Visitors were instructed, according to the Regulations,
to visit each house daily for the purpose of ascertaining
the existence of diarrhoea or cholera, and of giving all
necessary medical assistance to the sick. Each medical
Visitor was further required, in accordance with
the fifth Regulation, to make daily Reports to the
Medical Officer of Health, of the new cases of cholera
or diarrhoea treated by him during the previous twentyfour
hours, and of any nuisance found existing in any
premises visited by him.
The results of the medical visitation of the Parish
during the six weeks terminating September the 15th,
are comprised in the following Tables, one of which
shews the number of cases of disease treated by each
medical Visitor in each week, with the number of
deaths and recoveries; while the other (No. 2) exhibits
the number of nuisances and sanitary defects reported
by each Visitor in each week, with the number of orders
made under the sanction of the Sanitary Committee in
consequence.