The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-15 00:00:00

(From last night's Gazette.)

SUPPLEMENTAL DIRECTIONS AND REGULA-
TIONS OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH,
Issued under Authority of the Nuisances Removal and
Diseases Prevention Act, 1848, Section X.
To Local Boards of Health acting under the Public
Health Act, 1848 ;
To Town Councils or other Bodies acting under the Au-
thority of Local Acts of Parliament in which the Provi-
sions of the Public Health Act are included ;
To the Guardians of the Poor of the several Unions in.
England and Wales, named in the First and Third Sche-
dules hereunto annexed ;
To the Guardians of the Poor of the several Parishes in
England and Wales, named in the Second Schedule here-
unto annexed ;
To the Overseers of the Poor of all Parishes, Townships,
and Places not comprised in the Unions and Parishes men-
tioned in the Schedules hereunto annexed ;
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Cities and
Boroughs, Commissioners under Local Acts, the Surveyors
of Highways, their Deputies and Assistants, Road Trus-
tees, Commissioners, County Surveyors, and other Persons
by Law intrusted with the Care and Management of all
Streets, public Ways and Places in any Parish or Place in
England and Wales ;
To the owners and occupiers of houses, dwellings,
churches, buildings, and places of assembly within the said
unions, parishes, and others having the care and ordering
thereof, and to all whom it may concern :
Whereas directions and regulations, bearing date the ?Oth
day of September, 1853, were issued by us, the General
Board of Health, according to the provisions of " The Nui-
sances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, 1848," act-
ing under an order of the Lords and others of her Majesty's
most Honourable Privy Council, bearing date the 15th day
of September, 1853 :
And whereas doubts have arisen in rel4ion to those of
the said directions numbered respectively 9 and 10 in the
copies thereof printed by the Queen's printers ; and it is
expedient to remove the same and to make other regula-
tions in place thereof :
Now, therefore, in exercise of the authority vested in us
as aforesaid, we, the General Board of Health, do hereby,
from and after the expiration of one week from the date
hereof, revoke the regulations and directions, numbered
respectively 9 and 10, above referred to, and from and after
such period : we direct,
1. That when any dwelling-house in any place to which
these directions and regulations extend is in such a filthy
and unwholesome condition as to be a nuisance or injurious
to health; or,
Where upon, adjoining to, or near any premises or place
as aforesaid, there is any drain, ditch, gutter, watercourse,
privy, cesspool, or ashpit kept or constructed so as to be a
nuisance or injurious to health ; or,
Where upon, adjoining to, or near any such premises or
place, swine or any other animal, or any accumulation of
dung, manure, offal, filth, refuse, or any matter or thing,
shall be kept so as to be a nuisance or injurious to health :
Then the owner or occupier, or the person having the
care of such dwelling-house or premises, or the person
causing the nuisance aforesaid, shall forthwith cleanse,
whitewash, ventilate, or otherwise purify, as the case may
require, such dwelling-house or premises, or otherwise
abate or remove the nuisance or matter injurious to health
as aforesaid.

And if default be made herein by reason of the poverty
of the owner, occupier, or other person or otherwise, and
complaint shall have been made as hereinafter provided,
The local authority empowered to act in the place where
the premises complained of shall be situate,
Or, if there shall be no such local authority, or the local
authority shall delay for an unreasonable time, the guar-
dians of the union or parish, or the overseers respectively,
shall forthwith take all proper means for carrying into
effect the directions above prescribed for the owner or
occupier.
2. Complaint as to any of the matters in the preceding
direction may be made to the board of guardians and over-
seers respectively, or to the local authority of the union,
parish, or place wherein the matter of complaint exists ;
and the boards of guardians or overseers respectively, on
receipt of such complaint, shall either cause proceedings to
be taken under the first section of the Nuisances Removal
and Diseases Prevention Act, 1848, or forward the com-
plaint to such local authority, who shall proceed thereon
forthwith.; unless where there has been previous default on
the part of such local authority, when the board of guardians
or overseers shall themselves forthwith, if necessary, act
on the complaint as above directed.
3. That the guardians of any union or parish, or the
overseers respectively, if they deem it necessary by reason
of the appearance or reasonable apprehension of cholera in
such union or parish, shall cause any such dwelling-house
or premises to be cleansed and purified, and any such nuis-
ance or matter injurious to health, as herein-before des-
cribed, to be forthwith removed and abated, without any
previous complaint being made to them or to the local
authority.
4. That where any medical officer engaged in carrying
our regulations into execution shall certify in writing that
any dwelling-house or room is so overcrowded as to threaten
danger to the health of the inmates on tho occurrence of
cholera or any epidemic disease, and shall specify in such
certificates the number of inmates which shall not be ex-
ceeded in such house or room, the owner or occupier hav-
ing the control of such house or room shall forthwith re-
duce the number of inmates as speciefied in such certifi-
cate, notwithstanding any measures may have been taken
to ventilate, purify, or cleanse the house or room.
5. That the provisions of the Common Lodging Houses
Act, shall extend to rooms occupied by members of diffe-
rent families, whether for weekly, monthly, quarterly, or
longer periods.
6. The expression local authority used herein shall sig-
nify the town council, local board of health, or 'any trus-
tees or commissioners for the draining, paving, lighting,
cleansing, managing, or directing the police of any tower
borough, or place, or any other body of a like nature, or
any commissioners of sewers, or any body, excepting
boards of guardians and overseers, having by law powers
for the removal of nuisances ; and the other words used
shall be herein interpreted as in our regulations and direc
tions dated the 20th of September last.
Given under our hands and under the seal of the Genera
Board of Health, this 12th day of October, 1853.
(L.S.) Signed SHAFTESBURY,
EDWIN CHADWICK,
T. SOUTHWOOD SMITH.
Here follow the names of the unions to which the pre
sent directions and regulations apply.

DIRECTIONS AND REGULATIONS OF THE
GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH,
Issued under Authority of the Nuisances Removal and
Diseases Prevention Act, 1848, Section X.
To Officers of the Customs and Coast Guard, Medical Offi-
cers of Quarantine, Union and Parochial Medical Officers,
4 and Pilots; to Persons in Command of Merchant Ships
arriving at Ports in England and Wales ; and to all
whom it may concern :
Whereas by the provisions of " The Nuisances Removal
and Diseases Prevention Act, 1848," for the prevention of
epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases, we, the Ge-
neral Board of Health are authorised to issue such direc-
tions and regulations as we shall think fit, for the preven-
tion, as far as possible, or mitigation of epidemic, endemic,
or contagious disease. And whereas by the said act it is
provided, that the directions and regulations to be issw.d
as aforesaid shall extend to all parts or places in which the
said provisions of the said act shall, for the time being, be
in force under the order of her Majesty's Privy Council,
unless such directions or regulations shall be expressly con-
fined to some of such parts or places, and then to such
parts or places as in such directions and regulations shall
be specified;
And whereas by an order of her Majesty's most Honour.
able Privy Council, bearing date the 15th day of Septem-
ber, 1853, the said provisions of the said act were directed
to be put in force throughout the whole of Great Britain
fora period of six calendar months thence next ensuing :
direc-
tions in exercise of the authority vested in us as afore-
s ai d , w
ande, the
regulations General
hereinafter
Board of Health,
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extend
all vessels arrivingin ports, harbours, rivers, creeks, or roads
throughout England and Wales, that is to say:
L That in every case when a vessel arrives in port, the
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officer of the Coast-gaard, as the case may be, or to the I
pilot, the number of persons on board, whether passengers

or seamen, who from illness, from whatsoever cause, are
unable to stand or to work.

IL That the said Customs officer shall see such peisons,
and if upon inquiry the illness, from whatsoever cause, be
such that there is reasonable around for desiring medical
advice, or if such advice be desired_ by the person suffer-
ing, then such officer shall send notice thereof to the near-
est union or parochial medical officer, or to any medical
practitioner who may have been specially appointed to act
as officer of quarantine.

111. That for the purpose of sending such notification,
the captain shall provide a boat and men, as he may be re-
quested, to convoy the notice, and to bring back such me-
dical officer to examine the case or cases of sickness on
board.

IV. Where the Customs or Coast-guard officer cannot
consistently with his duty quit the ship, then he shall re-
quire the officer in command of the ship to send the last-
mentioned notice, and shall note in his official book the
date and' hour f his having done so ' • and in case the
officer in command of the ship refuse or fail to send such
notice, the Custom-house officer shall report the fact to
the first visiting officer by whom the vessel may be
boarded, that proceedings may be taken against the com-
manding officer according to law for wilful neglect of the
directions of the General Board of Health.
V. Whore there is no medical officer of quarantine, the
principal officers of the Customs, or the inspecting com-
manders of the Coast-guard, shall see their subordinate
officers furnished with the name and address of the union
or parochial medical officer.
VI. And we do further order, that in the event of the
occurrence of one or more of such cases of illness, and upon
request from any passengers or seamen, or without such re-
quest where there is reasonable ground for believing
that there is a case of cholera or other epidemic disease
on board, or where more than one person on board is
suffering from illness of the like symptoms, the captain
of any British ship shall, himself, forthwith, and without
any inquiry by any Customs officer or pilot, send such
notice as aforesaid, and procure the attendance of any
union or parochial medical officer or medical officer of
quarantine. _

- VII. And we do hereby order and direct, that such
union or parochial medical officer or medical officer of
quarantine shall, upon receiving such notification, forth-
with go on board the vessel and examine the cases of sick-
ness on board, and act in respect thereto as if such cases
had occurred in dwellings on shore.
VIII. And in case he shall find that the cabin or hold
of the vessel where the sick person lies is in a filthy con-
dition and without proper accommodation, or that from
the cumber of persons on board there is danger of the
spreading of the disease, or that there is not on board pro-
per attendance or means for the suitable treatment of the
sick, we do further order and direct, that in every such
case the medical officer shall take order for providing suit-
..ble accommodation onshore for such patients, for their re-
moval thereto, and for their treatment therein.
IX. And in case of any vessel arriving at or lying in
any port, river, or creek, or near the coast, in any part of
the United Kingdom, out of the jurisdiction of the Poor-
law Amendment Act, where no medical officers are ap-
pointed, then application shall be made by the captain, or
any officer In charge, to any duly licensed medical prac-
titioner.

X. And we do further order, that where there is on
board of such vessel any case of epidemic, endemic, or con-
tagious disease, or in case of the arrival of the vessel from
any port or coast of any country where it is known that
cholera or other epidemic or endemic diseases are prevalent,
such medical officer shall and is hereby authorised to take
measures for the protection of the passengers and crew on
board such vessel ; and for such purpose all directions and
regulations of this board in force for the time being under
any order of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Coun-
cil with respect to dwellings on shore, shall, in so far as
applicable, extend to such vessel.
XL And we do hereby order and direct, that all officers
of Customs, or of the Coast-guard, appointed to take charge
of vessels on their arrival, and every pilot, shall keep and
carry with them copies of these our directions, and shall
call the attention of the captain of the vessel to them.
Given under our hands, and under the seal of the Gene-
ral Board of Health, this 13th day of October, 1853.
(L. S.) (Signed) SHAFTESBURY.

EDWIN CHADWICK.
T. SOUTHWOOD SMITH.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of Y ESTERDA

FOREIGN-OFFICE, 00T. 14.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Charles
Stoss as Consul at Liverpool for his Royal Highness the
Grand Duke of Hesse.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, 001%13.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, copies
of despatches from her Majesty's Consuls at Charente and
Naples, reporting the following Quarantine Regulations,
in consequence of the existence of Asiatic cholera in Great
Britain.

The Board of Health of Rochefort has ordered that all
vessels arriving at Charente, from British ports and the
Baltic, without clean bills of health shall perform a quar-
antine of five days at the Isle of Aix; and those that have
any sickness on board shall be sent to Trompeloup, in the
Gironde, where they will be subject to the rules of that
lazaretto. Vessels having clean bills of health, and no
sickness on board, will be admitted to entry on arrival.
At Naples the term of quarantine has been increased
from 7 to 10 days on all the vessels arriving from the ports
of Great Britain.

(By order) J. EMERSON TENNENT.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Oc^r.l2.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have recoivel
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Rotterdam,
covering the annexed copy of a decree relative to the resi-
dence of foreigners at certain places in Netherlands India.
(By order) J. EMERSON TISNNENT.
(Copy.)
By decree of the Governor-General of Netherlands India,
dated 17th July, 1853, it is provided :
(a.) That the Resident of Rio shall be allowed to grant
license to foreigners to settle for the purposes of trade in
that port, until counter-ordered.
(b.) That the residents of Rio and of Menado shall not
have the faculty of rescinding a license of settlement once
granted, either for Rio, or Menado, or Kema, excepting
for reasons of overruling necessity, and with the special
sanction of the Governor-General.

(c.) That the residents of Rio and Menado shall be autho•
rised to allow traders holding a license of temporary resi-
dence, either for Rio, or Menado, or Kema, likewise until
countermanded, to stay at the principal places in the dis-
tricts of said residences, subjecting themselves to every
local stipulation and instruction which may be issued in
regard to them.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARINE
DEPARTMENT—Oct. 12, 1853.

The Eight Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a popy
of a dispatch from her Majesty's Consul at Elsinore, inelok-
ing a Notice to Mariners, issued by the Danish Marine
Board, a translation of which is subjoined, relative to the
new light-ship in the Kobber Griind, the establishment of
which was notified in the Gazette of the Gth ultimo.
(By order) T. H. FABEHR.
(Copy.)
NOTICE TO MARINERS.

In conformity with the notice given by this board, on
on the 12th ultimo, further notice is hereby given that the
light-vessel on the Copper Shoal (Kobber Griind) had been
laid at her station, in four fathoms water, and the lights
were shown for the first time on the night of the 24th to
25th instant.

The vessel's three lights consist of three single alder*
lanterns, of which two are fixed on the after part of the fore::
or highest mast, respectively 50 and 25 feet above the levOl
of the water, and the third on the fore part of the main or
shortest mast, 40 feet above the level of the water. Tho
lights will be kept burning the same time as all other lights
in the kingdom ; viz.: from ono half hour after sunset
until its rise.

It lights the horizon for a distance of nine miles, Eng.
lisp (two miles, Danish).
Marine Board, 26th September, 1851.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.

Leicestershire—Thomas Beaumont Winstanley, Esq.,
to be Deputy-Lieutenant, August 22.
Lancashire—William Adam Hulton, Esq., Oct. 7; the
Right Honourable Matthew Talbot Baines, M.P. ; and
Robert Needham Philips, Esq., Oct. 8, to be Deputy-
Lieutenants.

Artillery Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—William
Henry Nuun, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, Sept. 16.
Ist Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Egerton Leigh,
jun., Esq., late Captain in the 2d Regiment of Dragoon
Guards, to be Major; William Sandbach, Gent., to be
Ensign, Aug. 30; John Craven Palin, Gent., to be En-
sign, Sept. 10.
2d Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Lieutenant
Charles Poppleton, from Ist Regiment of Royal Cheshire
Militia, to be Lieutenant, Sept. 30 ; Lieutenant James
Golden Heap, from Ist Regiment of Royal Cheshire Mili-
tia, to be Lieutenant; Ensign Thomas Edmund Marsland,
from Ist Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia, to be En-
sign, Oct. 5 ; Edward Reddish, Gent., to be Ensign,
Oct. 10.

Merionethshire Militia— Lieutenant William Price
Jones, to be Captain, vice Thurston, resigned, Oct. 9.
(The following is substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazette of the 7th inst.)
Warwickshire Militia-Ist Regiment—Henry Flood
Page, Gent., to be Ensign; William Edward Tibbits,
Gent., to be Ensign, Oct. 1.

(This article is substituted fore that which appeared in
the Gazette of Tuesday last.)
Ist Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—To be Cap-
tain—Wm. Platt, Esq., vice Clifford Henry, resigned,
Oct. 5.

The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury hav-
ing in virtue of the powers and authority vested in them
by the act 16 and 17 Viet., cap. 45, sanctioned and approved
the additional tables required for the grant of annuities
under that act, the Commissioners for the reduction of the
National Debt hereby give notice that such tables have
been sanctioned and approved. accordingly.
A. Y. SPEARMAN, Comptroller-General.
National Debt Office, Oct. 12, 1853.