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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, 1891, 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.
The Report gives, among other matters, much interesting information on
the following subjects :—
(1.) The cubical space allowed to each Seaman on board Ship.
(2.) Small-pox and Enteric Fever.
(3.) Metropolitan Sewage.
(4.) The Inspection and Registration of Canal Boats.
Reference is made in the Report to the Public Health Act, which came into
force on the 1st January last, and which repeals the powers of the Corporation
as the Port of London Sanitary Authority under the Public Health Act of
1875. Under the new Act, however, the Corporation is reconstituted such
Authority, and power is given to the Local Government Board to
assign to the Authority any powers, rights, duties, capacities, liabilities or
obligations of a Sanitary Authority under the Act as may appear to the Board
to be required, and, under the directions of your Committee, the City Solicitor
has applied to the Board for the necessary order.
We beg 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, 1892 ; we accordingly recommend
that William Collingridge, M.D., should be re-appointed for that period
as the Medical Officer of Health for the Port of London, and that Henry
Spadaccini at 60s. per week, William Baillie at 45s. per week, William
Anderson at 45s. per week, and Thomas William Bailey at 40s. per week, be
re-appointed Inspectors.
As stated in our previous Reports, 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 satisfactory manner,
we are of opinion that his services should be retained for the same period as