Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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General Summary and Analysis of the Sanitary Inspections etc. in the Port of London for the year ended 31st December, 1966.
Type of Vessels/Premises | Inspected | Defective | To be cleaned |
---|---|---|---|
Foreign Going: Steam | 12,760 | 210 | 243 |
Sail | - | - | - |
Coastwise: Steam | 1,731 | 10 | 5 |
Sail | - | - | - |
Sub-Total | 14,491 | 220 | 248 |
Inland Navigation Steam | 95 | 12 | 10 |
Sail | — | — | - |
Lighters | 400 | 1 | 22 |
Canal Boats: | 2 | - | - |
Shore Premises: | 7,949 | 92 | 272 |
Sub-Total | 8,446 | 105 | 304 |
Total | 22,937 | 325 | 552 |
Areas where Foreign Going and Coastwise vessels were inspected.
Dock and River | No. of Inspections | ||
---|---|---|---|
London and St. | |||
Katharine | 991 | ||
Regents Canal | 205 | ||
Surrey Commercial | 1,004 | ||
East India | 166 | No. of vessels inspected in Launches | |
West India | 1,055 | ||
Millwall | 585 | ||
Royal Albert | 917 | ||
Royal Victoria | 905 | 1.769 | ("Alfred Roach" |
King George V | 618 | ("Humphrey Morris" | |
Upper River | 1,742 | ||
Middle River | 1,469 | 3,211 | ("Frederick Whittingham" |
Lower River | 1,769 | ("Victor Allcard" | |
River Medway | 1,198 | Inspected in Docks, etc. | |
Tilbury | 1,867 | 9,511 | |
Total | 14,491 | 14,491 |
Nationalities of Foreign Going and Coastwise vessels inspected.
No. of Inspections | No. of Inspections | ||
---|---|---|---|
Brought forward | 11,502 | ||
America | 103 | Israel | 50 |
Argentina | 23 | Italy | 42 |
Belgium | 154 | Jamaica | 1 |
Brazil | 13 | Japan | 65 |
Bulgaria | 36 | Kuwait | 4 |
Burma | 16 | Lebanon | 26 |
China | 4 | Liberia | 187 |
Cyprus | 1 | Madagasca | 5 |
Cuba | 9 | Nicaragua | 3 |
Denmark | 429 | Nigeria | 79 |
Egypt | 10 | Pakistan | 44 |
Ethiopia | 7 | Panama | 88 |
Finland | 313 | Persia | 1 |
France | 106 | Poland | 177 |
Germany (West) | 1,731 | Portugal | 17 |
Ghana | 54 | Romania | 19 |
Great Britain | 5,650 | Sudan | 16 |
Greece | 338 | Spain | 177 |
Hong Kong | 1 | South Africa | 10 |
Holland | 2,286 | Sweden and Norway | 1,643 |
Iceland | 76 | Switzerland | 18 |
India | 131 | Turkey | 52 |
Indonesia | 2 | Uruguay | 10 |
Iraq | 9 | U.S.S.R. | 181 |
Yugoslavia | 74 | ||
Carried forward | 11,502 | 14,491 |
During 1966 Port Health Inspectors referred 136 sick seamen to Hospital.
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