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NOTICES FROM PORT SANITARY AUTHORITIES.
A notice was received from the Port of London giving the names
and addresses of men engaged in unloading cargo from a vessel
which, whilst at Riga, had a labourer on board suffering from
anthrax, who was putting the cargo into the vessel. The men were
kept under observation.
Notice was received from the Port of London Sanitary Authority of
eight passengers coming into the Poplar district by the ship s.s.
" Minnehaha," from New York. A Small Pox patient was landed
from the vessel. The passenger was taken ill on the 2nd January,
and removed on the 7th January. Two of these passengers were
not admitted at the address given.
Two passengers were notified by the s.s. "Anglian," from Boston,
United States, as coming to the Poplar district. Two cases of Small
Pox were on the vessel from 2nd January to Saturday, 4th January;
one man went to the Stepney district, and the other man was
believed to have sailed with the ship again on the 11th January.
From the Port Sanitary Authority of Bristol, notice was received
of a passenger coming from s.s. "Mammon," from Portland, Maine,
into the Poplar parish. He was kept under observation.
Notices were received from the Port of London Sanitary Authority
respecting two men living in the Poplar district, working on the s.s.
" Newington," from which ship a case of Small Pox had been removed.
Notice from the same Port Sanitary Authority was received of
a person residing in the parish of Bromley, who had been working
on the s.s. "Harlow," from which ship a case of Small Pox was
removed.
Notices were received from the Port of London Sanitary Authority
respecting a man working on the hulk "Atlas III.," lying oft' Erith, as
the man had in all probability been in contact with a Small Pox case.