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In accordance with the instructions of your Honourable Court, on our
recommendation, a communication was addressed to the Board of Trade,
urging that steps should be taken at the earliest possible date to carry into
effect the recommendations of the Royal Commission, and at the same time
expressing the opinion that the medical examination of alien immigrants and
the duty of regulating the accommodation upon immigrant vessels should be
entrusted to the Port Sanitary Authority.
It is satisfactory to note that, notwithstanding the difficulties attending the
medical inspection of vessels at Sheerness, the Report of the Medical Officer
shows that the proportion of Foreign vessels visited has been larger than in
previous years, and that the inspection is now carried out by Dr. Legge with
a degree of efficiency not attained under any previous arrangement.
An important decision has recently been given in the Court of Appeal
arising out of proceedings taken by order of your Committee against the
owner of the steam tug " Richmond," for smoke nuisance, which will have an
important bearing upon the work of the Port of London Sanitary Authority
in their efforts to abate this evil.
The Judgment of the High Court is set out in the Medical Officer's Report.
In accordance with the Order of your Honourable Court, an Account of
Receipts and Expenditure in connection with the Port of London Sanitary
Authority for the year ended the 31st December last is appended.
All which we submit to the judgment of your Honourable Court. Dated
this twelfth day of April, 1904.
James Lake.
Horace S. Dove. Geo. Taylor.
Robt. Gresley Hall. J. Cloudsley.
Rob. B. Warrick. N. Fortescue.
Edward Ardley. David Haydon.
Walter Dennis. E. Constantine.
T. Howard Deighton. S. Spencer.