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RITCHIE, Mayor.
A Common Council holden in the Chamber
of the Guildhall of the City of London, on
Thursday, the 14:th day of April, 1904.
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 last; which was read.
Resolved, That the consideration thereof be adjourned, and it is
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 ended the 31st December, 1903, 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 Report gives, amongst other matters, much interesting information
respecting Plague and the destruction of rats on board ships coming into the
Port, and on the premises of the various Dock Companies, and also with regard
to Cholera, Small-pox and Enteric Fever, the Inspection of Canal Boats, and
Food Inspection.
The Report also deals at considerable length with the question of Alien
Immigration, and the Report of the Royal Commission appointed to investigate
the same.