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When an actual or suspected case of Plague exists or has occurred on a
vessel, each person on board is given a handbill, as follows :—
PORT OF LONDON SANITARY AUTHORITY.
(Public Health Act, 1896.)
Take Notice that you are required by the Regulations of the Local Government
Board to
(i) Furnish the Port Medical Officer with your name, intended place
of destination, and intended address at such place ; and
(ii) That if within forty-eight hours after landing you shall arrive at
any place of destination or address other than such place or address as
aforesaid, you shall forthwith, upon such arrival, notify in writing your
place of destination and address to the Medical Officer of Health of the
Sanitary Authority, or to the Local Authority of the District in which
such place is situate.
Any person who being required to give the Medical Officer, or to
notify to any Local Authority, his name and intended place of
destination, and address, who shall knowingly give, or notify, a
false or fictitious name, place of destination or address, or refuse or
fail to give or notify his true name, intended place of destination
and address, is liable to a penalty of £100, and in the case of a
continuing offence, to a further penalty of £50 for every day
during which the offence continues.
By Order,
HERBERT WILLIAMS,
Port Sanitary Office, Medical Officer of Health,
King William Street, Port of London.
Greenwich, S.E.
This has had a good result, many notifications of subsequent change of
addresses having been forwarded to your Medical Officer.
SMALL-POX.
Notwithstanding the severity of the outbreak in the Metropolis (about 2,000
cases having occurred since August last up to the end of the year), only six
were reported in relation to vessels in the Port ; and of these, two only came
into the Port Sanitary Hospital for treatment. Both of these made a good
recovery.
The greatest number of cases in the early days of the outbreak occurred in
the districts of St. Pancras and St. Marylebone, though the origin of the
outbreak seems to be at present obscure. On referring to the history of