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and a Report by your Medical Officer, establishing the prevalence of
Cholera in the parish, having been read:
A Committee consisting of the churchwarden and eighteen members
of the Vestry was appointed, with authority to make the necessary
arrangements to carry out the regulations as requested by the Order of
the Privy Council.
Your committee met on Thursday, the 2nd day of August, 18G6, and
in order to carry into effect the object contained in the reference from
the Vestry, of the 31st July, 1866, proceeded to make the necessary
arrangements for that purpose, as follows :
1.—That the parish should be sub-divided into six districts.
2—That a Medical Visitor should be appointed for each district,
as follows:
Dr. Buss, 56, Holywell-street—Holywell district
„ Leonard, Tabernacle-square—Hoxton Old Town
,, Griffith, 79, New North-road—Hoxton New Town
,, Burchell, 2, Kingsland-road—St. Leonard's
,, Wallace, 243, Hackney-road—Haggerstone West
„ Greenwood, 26, Queen's-road—Haggerstone East
That six Dispensaries, being the surgeries of the six medical visitors,
be open day and night, for affording advice and medicines to any persons
attacked with Diarrhoea or Cholera.
That placards and hand-bills be issued, giving public notice that such
dispensaries were open, and also containing other directions as to the
course to be adopted for the prevention of disease.
3.—That the remuneration to be given to such medical officers, be at
the rate of £l 1s. per day, to include the medicine supplied.
4.—That six Assistant Medical Visitors should be appointed for each
of the before-named districts, to make an inspection of the sanitary
condition of the parish, and report daily thereon to the medical officer
of the Vestry: and that the remuneration to be paid to each assistant,