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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Port of London 1909

Report for the year ended 31st December 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health for the Port of London

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Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
1909.Broughtforward16
May8s.s. " Malwa," of Greenock, 127,543.Sydney1Removed to Hospital at Aden.
”218.9. " Arcadia," of Belfast, 93,173.Laid up off Southend Pier.1Removed to Port Sanitary Hospital.
”27s.s. " Arabia," of Greenock, 105,507.Bombay1Died at sea.
”28s.s. " Caledonia," of Greenock, 103,290.Bombay1Removed to Hospital at Port Said.
”29s.s. " Omrah," of Glasgow, 108,782,Brisbane1Removed to Port Sanitary Hospital.
July14Training Ship " Arethusa," lyingoff Greenhithe.1Removed to Southend-on-Sea Borough Sani-torium.
”22s.s. " Anjou," of Rouen -Rouen1Removed to Hospital of Metropolitan Asylums Board.
”29s.s. " Clan Lindsay," of Glasgow, 115,704.Chittagong-1Removed to Hospital at Colombo.
August16Training Ship " Cornwall," lyingoff Purfleet.Removed to Ship's Hospital on shore.
”16s.s. " Herefoidshire," of Liverpool, 120,903.Rangoon1Removed to Port Sanitary Hospital.
”22s.s. " Wensleydale," of Sunderland, 114,652.Savannah -1Convalescent on arrival of vessel in London.
”24Barge " Corona," of London, 104,774.Employed in London.1Removed to Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.
”27s.s. " Greenbank," of West Hartlepool, 119,864,Samarang -1Died, and body buried at sea.
September3Training Ship " Cornwall," lyingoff Purfleet.1Removed to Ship's Hospital on shore.
”15DittoDitto1Ditto.
October15DittoDitto2Ditto.
”19s.s. " Dana,” of Norway -Faro -1Removed to Port Sanitary Hospital.
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ERYSIPELAS.
This disease, although notifiable under the Public Health London Act, 1891,
is not now scheduled in the Bye-laws of the Port Sanitary Authority as
a disease requiring the patient to be removed to hospital, yet a record is kept
of all cases reported, and as a result 5 cases have been notified during the
year and the usual precautionary measures adopted.
Three of these occurred in patients being inmates of other hospitals,
1 case was removed from a vessel to the Port Sanitary Hospital, and the other
was a mild case, and was isolated and treated on board.