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Clerkenwell 1866

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]

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[ Copy Regulations referred to.]
AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, WHITEHALL,
The 21 st day of July, 1866.
BY THE LORDS OF HER MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE
PRIVY COUNCIL.
Present:
LORD CHANCELLOR.
LORD PRESIDENT.
LORD PRIVY SEAL.
MR. SECRETARY WALPOLE.
GENERAL PEEL.
MR. CORRY.
WHEREAS the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable
Privy Council, by an Order made the 14th day of July instant,
in exercise of the powers given by "The Diseases Prevention Act,
1855," and the Amending Act of the twenty-third and twentyfourth
years of Her Majesty, chapter seventy-seven, did order and
direct that the provisions contained in the said Acts for the
prevention of diseases should, from and after the date of that
Order, be put in force within the whole and every part of
England.
And whereas the Lords of Her Majesty's Privy Council have
thought fit, under the authority conferred upon them by the said
first cited Act and all other Acts in such behalf, to issue certain
directions and regulations, to be in force within the Metropolis so
long as the provisions aforesaid shall be in force under the said
Order:
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon
them by the above named Acts, the Lords of the Council order,
and it is hereby ordered, as follows, that is to say :
I.—Preliminary.
Preliminary
arrangements
Forthwith on the issuing of the present Regulations, the
Clerk of the Vestry or District Board (as the case may be) under
the Act of the Session holden in the eighteenth and nineteenth
years of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty, shall
summon a special meeting of the Vestry or Board, in order that
the present Regulations may be brought before them, and that the
Vestry or Board may make, as they are hereby required to do,
such preliminary arrangements as will enable them, if sudden