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VAUGHAN MORGAN, Mayor.
A Common Council holden in the Chamber
of the Guildhall of the City of London, on
Thursday, the 5th day of April, 1906.
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 of the Port to the 31st December, 1905; 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.
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 cany 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, 1905,
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 deals very fully with the work of medical inspection carried
out with a view to the prevention of the introduction of Infectious Disease
into this country.