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City of London 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

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Table: Table A.SUMMARY OF INSPECTIONS, &c.

Table A.

SUMMARY OF INSPECTIONS, &c.

1897.1898.1899.1900.1901.Mean Annual No. for the 5 years.Total No. for 1902.
Medical Inspection:—'
No. of Vessels Medically Inspected—
(a) Gravesend9771,0961,2761,2561,0801,137.01,668
(b) Sheerness315265263243212259.6244
Sanitary Inspection:—
No. of visits of Inspection -30,22831,65833,58030,80532,07531,669.233,606
No. of Nuisances reported and dealt with (including Structural Alterations)6441,007547509832707.81,187
No. of Nuisances abated (including Structural Alterations carried out) -6671,035666513782732.6743
Vessels cleaned -1,1201,5992,5572,3862,4972,031.82,934
No. of Statutory Notices issued -2322504812152.8285
No. of cases in which Proceedings were taken -—348221115.012
No. of Canal Boats Inspected597595781655528631.2894
No. of Seizures of Unsound Food -129190432403458322.4447

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This Report being the first of a new series, I think it well to recapitulate,
for the purposes of record, a few facts in relation to some of the physical
features of the Port. This will be instructive, as showing the extensive field
of operations covered by your Officers.
The Port of London, extending as it does from Teddington Lock to a line
drawn from Havengore Creek in Essex to Warden Point in Kent, traverses
five Counties (including the administrative County of London) and eighty-one
Parishes. It covers a distance on the River of about 76 miles, and includes
besides, 22 creeks with a total navigable mileage of about 45 miles. Of this
about 31 miles are visited daily, giving a distance covered by the launches out
and home of about 62.4 miles. The portions which are omitted from
daily visits, but which are visited periodically, are from London Bridge
to Teddington, Lower Hope to outer limits of the Port, and the Nore to
Coalmouth Creek in the Medway.
The Docks are situated at intervals from London Bridge to Galleons
Reach, a distance of about ten miles, and at Tilbury. These docks have
a total water area of 631 acres, or nearly one square mile, with a total
length of quayage of 25.73 statute miles. It will thus be seen that the