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SAMUEL, Mayor.
A Common Council holden in the Chamber
of the Guildhall of the City of London, on
Thursday, the 21st day of May, 1903.
THE Port of London Sanitary Committee did this day deliver
into this Court a Report in writing under their hands, of their
proceedings, and submitting the Annual Report of the Medical
Officer of Health to the 31st December, 1902; also recommending
that the Committee be authorised to appoint Dr. James S.
Warrack as Boarding Medical Officer at Gravesend to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. J. Grant Warren, at
the salary of Five Guineas a week, and that he be placed on
the Corporation Officers' Pension Fund No. 2 from the date of
his permanent appointment; which was read.
And a Motion being made and Question put, That this Court
doth agree with the Committee in their said Report, the same
was resolved in the Affirmative, and it is referred back to the
Committee to carry the same into execution.
Ordered, That the Report be printed, and a copy sent to every
Member of this Court.
BELL.
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
powers assigned to the Corporation as the Port of London Sanitary Authority
by the Local Government Board, under the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, beg to submit for the information of your Honourable Court the Annual
Report of Dr. Herbert Williams, the Medical Officer of Health for the Port
of London for the year ending the 31st December, 1902, which Report
contains a full and detailed account of the work done in the Port during that
period by the Medical Officers and Inspectors.
The Medical Officer refers at some length in his Report to the question of
the medical inspection of Emigrants on outward bound vessels.
This matter received considerable attention on the part of your Committee
during the past year, and representations were made to the Board of Trade
urging that passengers should be medically examined before embarking, in