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To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons
of the City of London, in Common Council assembled.
WE whose names are hereunto subscribed, of your Port of London
Sanitary Committee, to whom it has been referred to carry into
execution the Public Health Acts, 1872 and 1875, beg to submit for the
consideration of your Honourable Court the Report of Dr. William Collingridge,
the Medical Officer of Health of the Port of London, for the Half-year
ending 31st December, 1888, which Report contains a full and detailed account
of the work done during that period in the Port of London by the Medical
Officer and the Inspectors.
Your Committee note with much satisfaction the particularly healthy
condition of the Port during the past Half-year, only a very few cases of
infectious disease having been reported.
As will be seen by the Medical Officer's Report, the work of inspection and
registration of Canal Boats within the jurisdiction recently conferred upon the
Port Sanitary Authority is being carefully carried out, and it is satisfactory
to find that a decided improvement in the condition of Canal Boats has been
effected.
In the Report will also be found, amongst other matters, important
information on the following subjects :—
(1.) Diphtheria.
(2.) Compulsory Notification.
(3.) Emigrants.
(4.) Water Supply.
(5.) Nuisances.
(6.) Infected Clothing.
(7.) Unsound Meat.
We beg further to report that it becomes necessary that the Medical
Officer and the Inspectors of Nuisances of the Port of London should
be re-appointed for a period of twelve months from the 25th March,
1889 ; we accordingly recommend that William Collingridge, Esquire, M.D.,
should be re-appointed for that period as the Medical Officer of Health for
the Port of London, at his present salary of 700/. per annum, and that
William Henry Lewis at 175/. per annum, Henry Spadaccini at 55s. per
week, William Baillie at 45s. per week, and William Anderson at 40s. per
week, be re-appointed Inspectors.
As stated in our Reports, agreed to by your Honourable Court, great
advantage has been found from having a Medical Officer to take charge of the
Hospital at Gravesend ; and, as Mr. Philip Whitcombe continues to perform his
duties in a most satisfactory manner, we are of opinion that his services