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If the owners of goods subject to River Duty, or their agents,
are not willing to pay the rates and duties contained in the above
table, then it shall be competent for the Tacksman or Collector of
River Duty, to demand payment thereof in terms of the Act of
Parliament.
DIRECTIONS
For the Recovery of the apparently Droioned or Dead.
Methods of Treatment recommended hy the Royal Humane Society,
CAUTIONS. — 1. Lose no time — 2. Avoid all rough usage.—
3. Never hold the body up by the feet. — 4. Nor roll the body on
casks. — 5, Nor rub the body with salts or spirits. — 6. Nor inject
tobacGO-smoke, or infusion of tobacco.
Restorative means, if apparently Droioned.
Send for Medical assistance ; but do not delay the following means :•—.
I. Convey the body carefully, with the head and shoulders sup«
ported in a raised position, to the nearest house.
II. Strip the body, and rub it dry; then wrap it in hot blankets,
and place it in a warm bed in a warm cha.mber.
III. Wipe and cleanse the mouth and nostrils.
IV. In order to restore the natural warmth of the body,
1. Move a heated covered warming-pan over the back and
spine. — 2. Put bladders or bottles of hot water, or heated
bricks to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, between the
thighs, and to the soles of the feet. — 3. Foment the body with
hot flannels; but if possible — 4. Immerse the body in a warm
bath, as hot as the hand can bear without pain, as this is prefer-
able to the other means for restoring warmth. — 5. Rub the body
briskly with the hand; do not, however, suspend the use of
the other means at the same time.
V. In order to restore breathing, introduce the pipe of a com-
mon bellows (where the apparatus of the Society is not at hand,)
into one nostril, carefully closing the other and the mouth; at the
fiame time drawing downwards, and pushing gently backwards the
upper part of the windpipe, to allow a more free admission of air :
blow tbe bellows gently, in order to inflate the lungs, till the breast
be a little raised; the mouth and nostrils should then be set free,
and a- moderate pressure made with the hand upon the chest.
Repeat this process till life appears.
VI.' Electricity to be employed early by a Medical Assistants
VII. Inject into the stomach, by means of an elastic tube and
syringe, half a pint of warm brandy and water, or wine and water,
VIII. Apply.sal-volalile or haitshorn to the nostrils.
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