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Port of London 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

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6. If any dangerous infectious disorder shall break out on board any ship arriving
in the Port of London, and after she has passed Gravesend, the master or other person
having charge of such ship shall give notice to the Medical Officer of Health of the
Port Sanitary Authority, at his Office at Greenwich, that there is on board a person
suffering from such a disorder, and if, upon examination, the Medical Officer of Health
shall find that he is so suffering, the master or other person in charge of such ship
shall forthwith cause such person to be removed to a hospital to which the Port Sanitary
Authority are entitled to remove patients, as directed by the Medical Officer of Health.
7. Any master or other person having charge of a ship arriving in the Port of
London, and failing to perform any duty imposed on him by these Regulations, shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.
Guildhall,
July 10th, 1890.
HY. HOMEWOOD CRAWFORD,
City Solicitor.
Approved of by the Local Government Board this nineteenth day of July, 1890.
HUGH OWEN, CHAS. T. RITCHIE,
Secretary. President.