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REPEAL.
8. From and after the date of the confirmation of these Bye-laws, the
bye-laws for the removal to hospital of persons brought within the Port by
any vessel who are infected with a dangerous infectious disease, which were
made by the Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London, pursuant to the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, section 66 (3), on the first day of
December, 1892, and which were confirmed by the Local Government Board
on the twenty-seventh day of January, 1893, shall be repealed.
Examined,
HOMEWOOD CRAWFORD,
City Solicitor.
The Common Seal of the Mayor and Commonalty and
Citizens of the City of London was affixed to these
Bye-laws at a duly constituted Meeting of the Court
of Common Council holden on the Twelfth day
of March, 1908, and in my presence.
HOMEWOOD CRAWFORD.
Allowed by the Local Government Board this Sixth day of May, 1908.
S. B. PROYIS,
Secretary,
Acting on behalf of the said Board under the Authority of
their General Order dated the Twenty-sixth day
of May, 1877.
Address:—
Medical Officer of Health - - 51, King William Street,
Greenwich, S.E.
Telephone: 36 Deptford.
Telegrams : " Medoff, London."
Medical Officer - Boarding Station, Garrison
Point, Sheerness.
Medical Officer - - - - Hulk " Hygeia," off Custom
House, Gravesend.
The chief amendments consist in the removal of Erysipelas and Puerperal
Fever from the list of scheduled diseases, and in making it compulsory for
vessels bound up the Medway, having infectious disease on board, to stop on
arrival off Garrison Point, Sheerness, and send notice to the Medical Officer
stationed there that there is on board a person suffering from an infectious
disease.
Any person who is removed to Hospital at Denton with an infectious
disease, shall remain in Hospital so long as may be considered necessary by
the Medical Officer,