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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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We desire to express our appreciation of the valuable contribution on the subject
of Ship Rats by the Medical Officer of Health at the Congress of the Royal Sanitary
Institute held at Birmingham last year, a summary of which will be found in the
Report.
No rat infected with Plague has been found on shore within the jurisdiction of the
Authority throughout the year.
The customary work of your officers has been carried out in a satisfactory manner,
as detailed in the Report.
An Account of Receipts and Expenditure in connection with the Port of London
Sanitary Authority for the year ended the 31st March, 1921, is appended, in accordance
with the Order of your Honourable Court, for the information of the Court.
All which we submit to the judgment of this Honourable Court. Dated this
nineteenth day of July, 1921.
Hugh Shirreff.
Albion T. Snell. F. Barthorpe.
Wm. H. Thomas. W. W. Green.
Robt. Peachey. Yickers Dunfee.
Thos. Pimm.' Cecil F. J. Jennings.
A. C, Goodinge. Thos. Goldney.