An Act to establish Regulations for
preventing Contagious Diseases in
Ireland. 14th June 1819.
Whereas it has become highly expedient to provide for
and secure constant attention to the health and comforts of
the inhabitants of Ireland, and for the prevention of contagious
disease, more especially in the cities and great towns
thereof; and that for that purpose officers of health should
be annually appointed in all cities and large towns, and that
such officers should also be appointed in such towns, parishes,
and villages in the country, as shall think it proper
or necessary to adopt such a measure; be it therefore enacted
by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice
and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
the authority of the same, That within one calendar month
next after the passing of this Act, and within one calendar
month after the twenty-fifth day of March in the year one
thousand eight hundred and twenty, and in every subsequent
year, in every city and town in Ireland, which shall contain
one thousand inhabitants, or upwards; and in every
city and large town where the Lord Lieutenant, or other
Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, shall think fit to
direct that this Act shall be carried into effect, the inhabitant
householders of each and every parish in such city or
town, assembled in vestry, shall and they are hereby required
to elect and appoint any number of persons not less
than two, and not more than five, to be officers of health
for such parish, for the year ending on the twenty-fifth day
of March next after such election, and until new officers of
health shall be in like manner appointed for such parish for
the year ensuing.
II. And be it further enacted, That such officers of health, so to be elected and appointed, shall act in the exe-
