Catalogue description Folios 519-521. To: The General Board of Health. From: Henry James Paine, Officer of...

Folios 519-521.

To: The General Board of Health.

From: Henry James Paine, Officer of Health, Cardiff [Glamorgan].

Subject Matter: Letter reporting that since the 11 August 1854, there have been 15 registered deaths from cholera in Cardiff. Paine submits that it appears to have been imported by some foreign vessels: - 'Of the 15 cases six were Seamen, the remainder connected directly or indirectly with them, as members of their families or attendants, and confined almost entirely to the same locality'. He explains that today he has been summoned to a dwelling in which three cases are now in a 'collapsed condition'. They are said to be members of the families of two navigators, who have been working in the mud at the Bute Dock. Paine states that he has been in repeated communication with the Local Board, who are said to be exercising every means in their power to arrest the progress of the disease under his direction. He requests any instructions which the General Board may think applicable to the present exigency. Paine suggests the renewal of a former Special Order dated June 1849, empowering Guardians to remove persons from houses infected with cholera or from the immediate vicinity where cholera exists.