Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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legally qualified Medical Practitioner, with or without Assistant,
as the case may require, to attend to the same.
provide for
???e separation
the sick
om the
helthy in the
ame dwelling
11. If Cholera or Choleraic Diarrhoea exist in any dwelling
whereof the Medical Officer of Health reports that the sick and
healthy cannot therein be properly separated, the Vestry or
Board shall forthwith cause adequate accommodation to be procured
for the reception of the healthy; and when the Medical
Officer of Health recommends that the sick person shall not be
removed, but that the healthy shall be removed from the same
room in which the sick person is lying, the Vestry or Board shall
cause the other inmates of such room to be removed to some convenient
place of reception.
o provide
sinfectants
ad to cause
tings and
aces to be
sinfected.
12. The Vestry or Board shall, in dwellings where Cholera
or Diarrhoea exists, cause proper disinfectants to be used in
sufficient quantities for the purpose of disinfecting the discharges
from the sick, and the bedding, clothing, and other things thereby
infected, and the utensils and privies in which such discharges
may have been received.
cause incted
goods to
destroyed.
13. The vestry or Board shall cause every article of clothing,
bedding, or furniture which shall have been infected with any such
discharge, and which they shall find incapable of being speedily
disinfected, to be forthwith destroyed, the Vestry or Board within
a reasonable time replacing all such articles, or paying the reasonable
value to the owner.
p procure
food water in
???ace of that
which is pol???ted.
14. If it be shown to the Vestry or Board that any drinking-water
used in their Parish or District is polluted, they shall
take measures, with as much expedition as possible, for procuring
wholesome water to be supplied in its stead, so far as the case
requires, to the inmates of the houses in their Parish or District,
and for preventing, as far as possible, the further use of the
polluted water. And every Vestry or Board owning or having
possession of any waterworks for the supply of water shall cause
the reservoirs, cistern, pipes, pumps, and other apparatus belonging
thereto, to be carefully examined, cleansed and purified, and other
necessary measures to be taken, so that the water may be supplied
without impurity.
???ovision for
???arials.
15. The Vestry or Board shall make due arrangements with
undertakers, and with the proper authorities of the churchyards,
burialgrounds, and cemeteries of their Parish or District, so that
coffins may be ready to be supplied immediately on demand, and
interments speedily take place, in the eases of deaths arising from
Cholera or Diarrhœa; and the Vestry or Board shall, when informed
of any such death, cause the corpse to be buried with the
earliest possible dispatch.