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Port of London 1920

Report for the year ended 31st December 1920 of the Medical Officer of Health for the Port of London

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Table: TABLE III.Return of the number of cases of Infectious Disease notified to the Ministry of Health during the year 1920, and of Deaths from the diseases notified.This Table includes all cases actually introduced or occurring within the Port, but does not include cases reported as having occurred on vessels during the voyage, but which had either recovered or been removed from the vessel before arrival at Gravesend.

TABLE III.

Return of the number of cases of Infectious Disease notified to the Ministry of Health during the year 1920, and of Deaths from the diseases notified.

This Table includes all cases actually introduced or occurring within the Port, but does not include cases reported as having occurred on vessels during the voyage, but which had either recovered or been removed from the vessel before arrival at Gravesend.

Notified.Deaths.
Plague (including suspected)22
Small-pox82
Scarlet Fever9...
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)20...
Enteric (Typhoid) Fever201
Puerperal Fever......
Typhus Fever. .....
Cholera. .....
Relapsing Fever. . ....
Continued Fever2...
Cerebro spinal Fever......
Acute Poliomyelitis......
Erysipelas3...
Ophthalmia Neonatorum......
Tuberculosis : Pulmonary27...
Other kinds2...
Chicken-pox9...
Whooping Cough. . ....
Measles761
German Measles1...
Influenza56...
Pneumonia351
Malaria311
Dysentery4...
Other Diseases9...
3148

Table: TABLE IV.—P lague (including suspected cases).

TABLE IV.—P lague (including suspected cases).

Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry and Official No.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
1920. Feb. 17s.s. " Alps Maru " _Kobe -1Admitted to Port Sanitary Hospital.
March 4s.s. "Alps Maru " _Ditto1Ditto.
April 30s.s. " Nevasa," of Glasgow, 133,012.Calcutta1Landed at Suez.
May 21s.s. " Peebles," of Newcastle, 142,381.Santa Fe1Landed at Rosario.
June 2s.s. " Wolverton " -Buenos Ayres-1Ditto.
Dec. 1s.s. " Burma "Java Total1 6Bubo. Landed at Suez. (Suspected Plague.)