Star.
London, England, 1831-10-03 00:00:00

BOARD OF HEALTH.

The following regulations have been issued by the Board
Or Health, with a view of preventing the progress of the
cholera-mein throughout the empire, should it unfortu-
nately appear.
It is of great importance that each town or village, par-
&end" those on the coast, should be prepared with the
best-arranged means to meet such a calamity as the break.
lag cut of the disease now raging in the north of Rurope, so
as to prevent confusion upon the emergency of the moment,
and be reedy to act upon a well-coasidered system for pre-
venting the spreading of infection.
With this view, the Board recommends the formation of
• local Bond of Health at each place, to consist of the chief
magistrate, the clergymen, one or more medical gentlemen,
and two or three of the principal lababittuits, who may im-
mediately' and as occasion regains, correspond with the
Board of Health hi London ; the medical members of the
local boards being deputed to write upon ail subjects Tele-
dog to shy symptoms of the disease.
The best means of preventing the spreading of infection
are, the immediate separation of the uninfected from the sick,
by their prompt removal from the house of any infected
person, or by the removal of any individual affected with
the disease, if possible, to sonic house in • dry and airy situ-
ation, appropriated to the purpose; but in the event of such
removal not being practicable, on account of extreme illness
or otherwise, the prevention f all Intercourse with the sick,
even of the family of the person attacked, must be rigidly
ob-erved, unless the individuals who desire to stay shall
submit to such strict rules of quarantine as the public safety
may demand, and the local Board of Health, advising with
the Board of Health in London, may consider expedient.
As success in the treatment of this disease, and pre.
venting its spreading, has been found greatly to depend
upon early medical assistance, it is of great importance
that the heads of families ani others should be vigilant
in guarding against concealment or delay in making known
every use which may occur.
On the removal of diseased persons, the rooms they may
have inhabited, and the house generally, should be thorough-
ly exposed to a constant current of air, arm recourse h to
all the well-known MOM of purifying houses, particularly
the use of chloride of line; and the bedding and clothing
of the sick person, after removal, should be soaked in • alight
solution of the chloride in water, and well washed. It is
impossible that ventilation and cleanliness can be carried too
far in the houses of the sick after removal; whitewashing,
and a variety of means of effecting so important an object,
will no deubt occur to the local Boards of ilealth ; and a
continuance ofventilatinn for some days, as the best means
of preventing contagion.
In large towns the local Board of Health should be com-
posed of sufficient numbers to admit of subdivision into dis-
trict committees, always attaching to each committee at least
one medical gentleman.
For the Information of the public, and to secure a ready
and linnet reference to authorized persons, the names and
residence of the persons composing the local Boards of
Health should be placed on the church door.
In the event of so great a calamity falling upon this
country as the introduction of this disease, rules and rege-
laden upon an extensive scale, anted to the rigid system
of quarantine which such an event would demand, will be
immediately circulated by the Lords of his Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, who will, upon the earliest intl.
motion of the existence of the disease, send down a medical
practitioner, who has been acquainted with the disease u it
occurred in the name of the Board,
HEMIT HALTO/D, President.

At a meeting in favour of the Poles, which WAS
held in New York on the sth of Sept. a subscrip-
tion was opened for that gallant people, and other
steps were taken indicative of the sympathy which
the Americans feel in their behalf.