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places assigned to him, be provided with medicines for immediate
administration in urgent cases, and shall be held to be in medical
charge of all cases of Diarrhoea or Cholera with which he may
meet until he is relieved by such other provision for their medical
attendance as may be made or sanctioned by the Vestry or Board.
Their report.
5. Such Medical Visitor shall, by transmitting his above
required book, or otherwise, report daily to the Medical Officer of
Health the result of his own and his Assistants' inquiries, and
shall report any nuisances which he or they find existing in any
premises visited by him or them, and shall make such suggestions
as to the state of the Parish or District as he shall deem advisable.
Visitors to report
cases of
destitution to
the Relieving
Officer.
6. The Visitors shall, where they find it expedient, communicate
to the Relieving Officer of the District any case of
destitution requiring relief, which is not entered in his relief list;
and such Officer shall forthwith visit the same and give such relief
as in his judgment the case shall require.
To provide
dispensary
stations.
7. The Vestry or Board shall provide a sufficient number of
Dispensaries to be open night and day, at convenient places within
their Parish or District, with an adequate supply of such
medicines, medical appliances and disinfectants, as their Medical
Officer of Health shall recommend, and with a legally qualified
Medical Practitioner or skilled Assistant always in attendance at
each; and such medicines, medical appliances and disinfectants,
shall be dispensed without charge by such Medical Practitioner or
Assistant to persons bringing orders for the same from the Medical
Visitors, and to other persons who apply for immediate medical
treatment. And the names and addresses of all such applicants
shall be sent to the Medical Visitor of the place in which they
reside.
To supply
medical aid to
poor Cholera
patients.
8. In every case of Cholera or Diarrhoea, where the patient
is not under medical care and treatment, the Vestry or Board
shall cause medical assistance to be rendered with the utmost
expedition, and such aid and comfort, nourishment and accommodation,
as the circumstances of the case will admit, with
the object of restoring health.
To provide
nurses.
9. The Vestry or Board shall provide competent Nurses to
aid every Medical Visitor in his attendance upon the patients
suffering from the disease.
To provide
hospitals in
certain cases
10. When the Medical Officer of Health recommends, the
Vestry or Board shall, with as much despatch as practicable, provide
fit and proper accommodation for the reception of such
patients as have no home, or cannot properly be treated at home,
and may with advantage to themselves be removed, and shall cause
the same to he provided with all appliances, medicines, furniture,
and other things necessary for the emei'gency, and shall appoint a