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Excerpt from Report by the General Board of Health: On the Measures Adopted for the Execution of the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, and the Public Health Act, Up to July 1849 May it please Your Majesty, As the Public Health Act and the Epidemic Diseases Prevention Act., which we, the members of the General Board of Health, were appointed to administer, constituted a new and untrodden field of legislation, we have felt it our duty to render an account of our first proceedings, and of the grounds on which we have asked for amended statutory provisions to carry out the views of the Legislature. In presenting the following Report we beg leave to express our regret that the pressure of incidental and irregular demands and emergencies for the direction of measures to arrest the spread of Asiatic cholera, have prevented our submitting it earlier for practical consideration during the present session of Parliament. For this delay, and for unavoidable incompleteness in the Report, which may not be supplied by our published Notifications, and for any imperfections in the first exercise of the powers with which we are charged, we would bespeak a gracious consideration. We deemed it our duty, in carrying into operation the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, to follow out the conclusions to which the Metropolitan Sanitary Commissioners had previously arrived respecting the mode of propagation, the localizing conditions, and the means of checking the spread of epidemic diseases - conclusions derived from the largest experience of such diseases at home and abroad, and which were generally acquiesced in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.