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SANITARY INSPECTION.
Table III.
The total number of visits of inspection during the year was 37,385.
This compares very favourably with previous years, and shows that the
work in this direction is still being carried out with efficiency.
Of this number, 17,971 inspections were of vessels arriving from foreign
ports, and 19,414 were coastwise vessels, barges, canal boats and other
inspections, including 1,716 visits paid to premises on land.
The inspection of vessels lying in the River aggregated 15,766, or nearly
one-half of the total number of inspections of vessels, and 14,819 of these
visits were made in the steam launches.
The Tilbury Dock stands next with 2,487 inspections, followed by the
Millwall Dock with 2,225, then the Royal Albert, West India, Commercial,
Victoria and London Docks, in order of number.
Of the nationality of vessels arriving from foreign ports, the larger portion
were, as usual, British, being 59.57 per cent. of the total.
Swedish and Norwegian came next with 12.87 per cent., and then in the
following order:—German, Dutch, Belgian, Danish, Russian, French and
Spanish, and other nationalities in decreasing proportion.
Of the total number, the crew's quarters on 3,019 vessels were
found to be in a dirty condition, requiring immediate cleansing, which was
carried out as usual under the personal supervision of your Inspectors.
The barges which supply the drinking water to vessels, and are known as
water barges, have been kept under careful supervision.
There are 21 of these now working in the Port, and at the time of each
inspection were found to be clean and in good order.