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cholera and diarrhoea, the supply of medical attendance
and nursing, and of medicine and disinfectants, and the
provision of dispensaries and of such additional hospitals
and places of refuge as might be necessary for the several
parishes and districts ; the hospitals being provided for the
reception of those cholera patients who could not properly
be treated in their own homes, and the places of refuge
for the lodgment of those persons not actually sick whom it
might be right to keep under observation or to accommodate
while their homes were either under disinfection or were
devoted to sick persons who could not properly be removed.
The Board suggested in their letter of the 22nd June,
that the Vestry should take into their early consideration
the question of their readiness to meet any emergency that
might arise, and requested to be informed how far the preliminary
action taken in the previous year, or since decided
on by the Vestry, might be regarded as enabling them,
without undue delay, to perform the duties which would
devolve upon them in the event of the Board finding
it necessary to issue regulations of the kind referred to.
In reply to the communication of the Local Government
Board, the Vestry informed the Board that the subject had
engaged the earnest attention of the Sanitary Committee
of the Vestry at successive meetings, and that they
believed all necessary arrangements had been made to cope
with an epidemic of Cholera should the necessity unfortunately
arise.
The Medical Officer of Health reported that so far as he
could ascertain there was not the slightest reason to suppose
that there was anything in the existing condition of the
Parish to apprehend any large amount of sickness from