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Dunkirk, where the vessel lay from the 24th to the 28th May, left the vessel
in London on the 30th and proceeded to his home at Govan, where he arrived
on the 31st May.
He was taken ill the same day, and was seen by the Medical Officer of Health
for Govan. On the 10th June he was found to be suffering from Typhus
Fever and removed to hospital.
On receipt of this information I had the crew's quarters of the vessel
thoroughly fumigated and disinfected. After this had been done, the quarters
were painted out with two coats of paint.
No further cases of illness have been reported.
TRAINING SHIPS.
With the exception of the epidemic of Enteric Fever on the "Cornwall,"
referred to in my notes under the heading of Infectious Disease, the year
has been a healthy one so far as these ships are concerned.
For years past there has been an epidemic of Diphtheria on the Training
Ship "Warspite." It is interesting, therefore, to observe from the subjoined
Table that during 1903 there has been, with the exception of one solitary case,
an entire absence of this disease from the vessel.
This fact, in my opinion, in itself amply justifies and confirms the
action of your Committee in urging the removal of the vessel from its old
berth at Woolwich to the lower reaches of the River.
The following cases of Infectious Disease were reported during the year:—