Great Britain. Central Board of Health

found: A group of doctors parade a dummy with a skeleton's head representing cholera: a group of people run screaming from it. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath, 1832:lettering (A sketch from the Central Board of Health or the real ass-i-antic cholera!! H.H.)

found: Nineteenth century public health and epidemics: sources in the National Archives, Domestic Records Information 73, website of the National Archives, 19 Dec. 2002 update:(In Feb. 1805 the Privy Council established a Board of Health to advise it on action to prevent the spread to Britain of a fever then prevalent in Spain and Gibraltar ... The Board met until Aug. 1806 ... Fears of a cholera epidemic led to the creation of another consultative Board of Health in June 1831 ... The following month a new Central Board of Health replaced the consultative one. It sat at the Privy Council Office with an advisory committee of the Royal College of Physicians. Nearly 1200 local boards of health were created, constituted by Orders in Council, in addition to those formed on local initiative ... The Board was dissolved in Dec. 1832 and the local boards disappeared as the epidemic receded)