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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
City of London 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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APPENDIX G.
Cases of Infectious Disease in the Port of London, from .Tuly 1st to December 31st, 1889.
| Date. | Name of Yessel. | Description. | Official No. | Owners or Brokers. | Where lying. | Disease. | Source of Infection. | Where case removed to. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1889. Aug. 6 | Hawarden Castle | Str. | 87,076 | Donald Currie and Co., 4, F enchurch-street. | Gravesend | Scarlet Fever. | Natal | Port Sanitary Hospital. |
| „ 15 | Tynesider | Str. | 95,240 | Tyne Shipping Co., Newcastle. | Free Trade Wharf | Scarlet Fever. | Newcastle | |
| „ 19 | Ifield | Barge | 74,822 | John Wood, Gravesend | Eastwood and Co., Charing Cross. | Scarlet Fever. | Stroud. | Deptford Hospital. |
| Sept. 2 | Arethusa | Traing Ship. | - | National Refuge | Greenhithe | Diphtheria | - | Treated on Shore. |
| Oct. 1 | Garonne | Str. | 65,855 | Anderson and Anderson, F enchurch-a venue. | Tilbury Dock | Chicken-pox | Sydney. | Convalescent on arrival. |
| „ 2 | Ernest William | Barge | 50,167 | John Wood, Gravesend. | Temple Bar | Scarlet Fever. | Stroud. | Fulham Metropolitan Asylums |
| Parthian | Str. | 87,715 | James McFarlane. | Commercial Dock | Intermittent Fever. | Mobile. | Board Hospital. Convalescent on arrival. | |
| „ 8 | Inventor | Str. | 78,801 | Charente S. S. Co., Liverpool. | Tilbury Dock | Enteric Fever. | Calcutta | Port Sanitary Hospital. |
| „ 12 | Dunbar Castle | Str. | 87,166 | Donald Currie and Co., F enchurch-street. | Gravesend | Small-pox | Mauritius | Saldanho Quarantine Station. |