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appointed last year was re-appointed, and the precautionary
measures then taken were again put in
force. In September a letter was received from the
Local Government Board, requesting the revision
of the arrangements contemplated in the event of
Cholera being introduced into the district, with the
view to those arrangements being promptly brought
into operation if the necessity should occur. The
matter was further considered, and the Local
Government Board was informed that the arrangements
were as complete as it was possible to make
them. An alleged case of cholera occurred at No.
17, Chapel Street on the 8th September. The following
is the Medical Officer's report on the
matter:—
The patient was a man aged 24 years. He had been poorly
for some weeks, and for the previous fortnight had been suffering
from bad attacks of Diarrhoea. He was a printer out of employment.
On Friday morning, the 8th, the attacks of Diarrhoea
became more violent and much more frequent, and whilst out in
the street he was so severely attacked that he had to be taken to
St. Bartholomew's Hospital. This was at 10 a.m. The first
notification the Vestry had of the case was by a registered letter,
received at the Vestry on the 9th. Within an hour of its receipt
seven men were set to work on the house, and handbills, showing
where temporary accommodation for the inmates could be had,
were distributed. Subsequently, three dirty old mattrasses were
burned; the whole of the bedding and clothes in the infected
floor were baked; every room in the house was thoroughly fumigated,
and the walls, ceilings, floors and woodwork were washed
with carbolic acid, and the papers stripped and burnt. The house
has a constant service of water.
The patient recovered, and no fresh illness occurred in the
house. The opinion that the case was one of cholera was not
confirmed by the bacteriological examination.
Infectious Hospitals.—In May, 1893, the Vestry
received a letter from the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, forwarding copy communication to the
Local Government Board respecting the urgent