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"house Disinfectants were used for the rooms
"and closets, and the house was being whitewashed.
"The came night the uncle of the boy was
"attacked with Cholera, and died on Monday
"morning. The house has been since thoroughly
"examined, and no further cases hare occurred.
"But this instance shews how thoroughly con"tagious
this disease is, and how necessary it is to
"investigate and watch every case of Cholera that
"occurs in the Parish. Since I last reported, the
"Sanitary Committee have held two meetings, and
"steps have been taken to carry out the directions
"of Privy Council issued under the Diseases Pre"ventive
Act which is now called into force."
During the remaining portion of August and
throughout the whole of the month of September,
up to the middle of October, the Sanitary Committee
was in permanent session, and I wish here to
record my sense of the ability and conscientiousness
with which the Committee performed its arduous
duties and supported me in all the measures I
suggested for meeting the calamity which hung
over us. On the reassembling of the Vestry on the
25th of October, I gave the following summary of
the state of health of the Parish, and the measures
adopted under the sanction of the Vestry by the
Sanitary Committee:
"As since I delivered my last report the Parish
"has been subject to the long expected invasion of