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need shall arise, to carry the following regulations into immediate
effect; and the Vestry or Board at such meeting shall direct the
Clerk, by circular letters of request addressed to all legally
qualified Medical Practitioners in the Parish or District, and in
such other ways as the Vestry or Board may think necessary, to
take measures for causing the Vestry or Board to be made
acquainted with any presence of Cholera or unusual amount
or severity of Diarrhoea in the Parish or District, or any part of
it, if such be existing or should thereafter exist: and the Vestry
or Board if apprised of any such presence of Cholera or Diarrhoea
shall thereupon forthwith, so far as the circumstances require, do
the several things hereinafter ordered:
II.—When Cholera is in a Parish or District.
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1. Every Vestry or Board shall make arrangements for
meeting, where the disease is actually prevailing, daily, either in a
body or in one or more Committees, according to the exigencies
of the Parish or District, for the purpose of exercising the powers
conferred upon them by the Act.
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2. The meetings may be held at the ordinary Board-room,
and where necessary, at such other places as shall appear to be
most convenient for dealing with the disease, and the Vestry or
Board shall cause proper minutes of all proceedings to be made
and duly recorded.
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3. The Medical Officer of Health shall, as far as practicable,
attend the meetings of the Vestry or Board, and of its Committees,
to render his advice thereat, and shall superintend all the
medical arrangements for preventing and treating the disease.
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4. In each Parish or District in which Cholera is present, or,
if the quantity of work to be done renders it desirable to subdivide
the Parish or District, then in each of such subdivisions a
legally qualified Medical Practitioner shall be put in charge of the
Parish or District or subdivision for the medical purposes of these
Regulations; and to each such Medical Practitioner (hereinafter
named the Medical Visitor) shall be allotted such Assistants as
the Vestry or Board see fit.
Such Medical Visitor, where practicable, or, in other cases,
one of his Assistants, shall at least once daily visit those places
assigned to him which are inhabited by the poorer classes and
wherein the disease is, and shall there inquire at every house as
to the existence of Diarrhoea or Cholera, and shall enter in a book
to be kept for the purpose the facts as to all cases he may meet
with, and shall without delay give, or take the proper steps for
causing to be given, all necessary medical assistance to the sick.
And the Medical Visitor or Assistant shall, when visiting the