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London, England, 1854-09-09 00:00:00

GENERAL BOARD OF ILEALTSC;

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The order in council under the Nuisances Remotal t
Act, 1848, authorising the Board of Health to issue raisT,
gulations and directions for the prevention, as far as pos-
sible, or mitigation of epidemic disease, has been renewed
for a further period of six months from this date, and by
virtue of it the Board of Health have issued reiulations
, and directions in the following form :
" GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH. ,
" DIRECTIONS and REGULATIONS of the GENERAL BOARD
OF HEALTH, issued under authority of the Nuisance,
Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, 1848.
"In exercise of the authority vested in us, wethe
General Board of Health, direct the guardians and over-
seers in all unions, parishes, and places in England and
Wales, as follows :
"I. To have made out a list of the places within the
union or parish where cases of cholera, diarrhoea, or any.
epidemic or endemic disease, may have lately been fre-
quent, and to give the list or portions of the list relating
to the particular districts to the medical officer of each dis-
trict to which it shall relate.
"And to require the medical officer to visit the places
within his district named in such list, and examine the
houses as to their present condition, or as to any predis-
' , posing and removable causes of disease likely to affect the
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" 111. To see that all town councils,icommaissionersunder
and district or assistant survey
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now by law entrusted with the control of streets and places
which these directions and regulations
trustees or commissioners, county sury yo s, o era
within the parts to
extend,
do exert their powers for the cleansing of all places
under their control, particularly thoseincluded
above list of the medical officer.
"IV. To see that places not entrusted by law to the
care of any town council, local board of health, commis-
sioners, surveyors, trustees, or others, are kept clean by
owners or occupiers of houses or tenements adjoining, by
effectual Washing or otherwise, and with the use of such
disinfectants as the medical officer shall direct.
"V. Where there is any default in cleansing or re-
moving nuisances by neglect of any such town council,
local board of health, commissioners, surveyors, trustees,
or others, or by
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reason of poverty of occupiers or other-
wise, to cause such places to be cleansed, and all nuisances
-as to be a nuisance or injurious to h
dwelling-house is in such a condition.
health; or,
or ashpit, kept or ugutter,
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place as aforesaid, there is any drain, ditchg tt ateorr-
course, privy, cesspool,
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" Whereupon, adjoining to, oil near any such
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premises
of dung, manure, offal, filth, refuse, other matter or
thing, shall be kept so as to be a nuisance or injurious to
health ;
" To see that the owner or occupier, or the person hav-
ing
the care of such dwelling-house or premises, or the
per-
son
causing the nuisance, forthwith cleanses, whitewashes,
ventilates, or otherwise purifies, as the case may require,
such dwelling-house or premises, or otherwise abates or
removes the nuisance or matter injurious to health.
" 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 :
" To see that 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—themselves
to take all proper means for carrying into effect the direc-
tions above prescribed for the owner or occupier.
" VII. When any complaint under the first section of
the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act.
1848, or any certificate under the Nuisances Removal and
Diseases Prevention Amendment Act, 1849, is made to the
guardians, to cause proceedings to be taken under the first
section of the former act; or to forward the complaint to
asy other local authority whO may have legal power to
deal with the nuisance ; or if there has been previous de-
fault on the part of such local authority, forthwith, if ne-
cessary, to proceed on the complaint themselves, under the
said acts.

" VIII. Where they consider the case one of urgency
to cause any such dwelling-house or premises to be cleansed
and purified, and any such nuisance as hereinbefore de-
scribed to be forthwith removed and abated, without any
previous complaint being made to them or to the local
authority.
"IX. To order every medical officer upon any unusual
amount of diarrhoea, or any case of cholera becomin
known to him within his district, to report the same to
the guardians.
"X. Where cholera is present or imminent.
" To provide sufficient medical aid for house-to-house
visitation, and for medical treatment of the sick, and for
dispensing medicines and issuing notices stating where such.
aid and medicines have been provided.
"XI. To provide places for accommodating necessitous
sick who cannot be properly treated in their own houses.
"XII. To provide places to which may be removed the
families or fellow-lodgers of necessitous persons attacked
with cholera, and to cause the dwellings from which per-
sons may have been so removed to be cleansed by the
owners or persons having the care of them, or, in their de-
fault, by the guardians.
" XIII. On the occurrence of any case of cholera in any
room occupied by one family or mere, to cause the re-
moval either of the patient or of so many of the occupants
as the medical officer may deem necessary.
" XIV. To provide when practicable and necessary, in
case of death by cholera, for the speedy removal and inter.
ment of the body.
" XV. To make arrangements for obtaining daily lists
of persons attacked by cholera within the union, and for
AniulatT.iicating the same weekly to the General Board of

" XVI. To appoint such medical and other officers as
may be necessa-ry to execute and superintend the execution
of these regulations, and to publish and circulate notices
of the provisions of the said acts for the prevention of
nuisances, and of our directions and regulations, or such
part of them as may appear expedient.
"In these directions and regulations the words guar-
diata of the poor' mean the guardians, directors, wardens,
governors, or other like officers having the management of
the poor of any union, parish, or place where the matter
requiring the cognisance of any such officers arises ; and
the expression local authority means the town council,
local board of health, or any trustees or commissioners
for the draining, paving, lighting, cleansing, managing, or
directing the police of any town, borough, or place, high-
way board, or any other body of a like nature, or any com-
missioners of sewers, or any body, excepting boards of
guardians and overseers, Laving by law powers for the
removal of nuisances.
"Given under my hand and under the seal of the Gene-
ral Board of Health, this Bth day of September, 1554.
(LS.) "B. HALL."