The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-20 00:00:00

IST HEAD.

The composition and the more important duties of
Local Boards hive been already pointed out by the circu-
lars of the 14th Novein.ier and 13th December, IS3I.
You will, therefore, request that these circulars, and all
other sanitary documents issued by this 8.,ar.1, may be
read at the Local Board of your district, of which it is
desirable that you should be a member. You will at the
same time give such information as to sanitary arrange-
ments and general treatment of the disease as your own
experience may suggest.

2D HEAD.
In the construction of Temporary Hospitals the following
essential particulars should be most carefully attended to:
The building should, if possible, be made to contain
four distinct wards at least ; two for each sex. One of
the wards for the patients of each sex in the cold stage,
the temperature of which ghoul. never be lower than 70
deg. Fahrenheit; and one for those of eich sex in
the stage of re-action, the temperature of which need not
exceed 60 deg. of Fahrenheit.
Comfortable straw or chaff beds, with an extra allow-
ance of blankets. An interval of three feet at L ast
.hould I e allowed between each two beds, an/ no bed ca-
oahle of containing more than one adult should be ad-
mitted.

Fire-places or stoves.—Bags to hold hot bran, *lnd,
ashes, cern, or salt.—Two or 'tore hot air bed•.-- de-
dical attendants, especi illy a house surgeon, to reside on
the spot.—A sufficient supply of medicines.
One or more covered litters, in which the sick may be
conveyed to the hospital in a horizontal posture. A ship's
cot with two shifting poles forms the best litter for this
iurpose. A suitatde number of able-bodied men always
eady to attend with the litters.
Two or more steady limewashers to be employed in pu-
rifying the apartments from which the sick nay have been
removed.

Suitable means for ventilating and purifying the hospital
itself, as well as the bedding and clothes i.f the sick.
Long flannel shirts, with wide sleeves, and flans-1 night-
.aps, to be put on the patients when first taken into hos-
pital.

Fresh and clean dresses for the convalescents, and, if
possible, separate rooms for their accommodation.
One or more warm baths, fur the purposes of cl-anlice,s.
A kitchen, a wash•bouse, a surgery, a dead-house.

It is suggested that the number of attendants upon the
sick in each ward i❑ the hospital ought not to be. in the
first instance, less than one attendant to five sick.

3D lIEAD.-DISPEN,A RY STATIONS.

The number of Dispensaries already existing in each
district should be immediately ascertained, as also whether
and upon what terms their managing Committees would
approve of their being converted into temporary chirl,ra
.lispensary stations ; and whether it might be found prac-
ricable to establish, in conjunction with the district anti o-
cities, branch dispensaries, dependent upon the of ler esta-
blishments of that nature ; also whether it might not be
idvisahve to arrange with one or more respectable chemists
to prepare, at a certain rate, the prescriptions of the local
physicians and surgeons for the poorer classes of their
neighbourhood. Parishes and benevolent societies ought
to b. encouraged to establish soup kitchens, to distribute
clothing, coals &c. to the indigent working classes.
4TH it EA RISONS, POOR.. HOUSES, 84C.

You will, upon obtaining permission from flys proper
authorities, mo,t carefully examine into the distribution,
icconimodation, and general arrangement, in a saint try
point of view, of the inmates of such buildings in your
district. You will note their actual state of health, and
the nature of the diseases which may happen to prevail
amongst them ; and as those under restraint, when ex-
dosed to infection, are more liable than others to contract
disease, you will recommend that intercourse with visitors
.hould be placed under such regulations as may be judoed
'test calculated to prevent the introduction of infection
from without.

A room should be kept apart in all such building., in
order that any who present even the slightest symptota.s of
the disease may be immediately separated from the healthy.
In these and all other communities the inns• partienlat at-
tention should he paid to bowel complaints of every kind.