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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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and it is possible that the first case was infected from that place during a
visit ashore.
I learned that the cadets returned from leave on the 26th January, and in
accordance with the usual practice the Superintendent had received from each
boy a certificate countersigned by the family medical attendant that no case of
infectious disease had occurred at the house of which he had been an inmate.
The disease was of a mild type, and all the patients recovered. I have
pleasure in acknowledging the courteous co-operation of Captain Wilson Barker,
the Superintendent, and also the prompt action on the part of Dr. H. T. Sells,
in detecting and immediately isolating any boy found suffering from any
complaint of a febrile nature.
TABLE IX. (Scarlet Fever.)
| Date. | Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number. | Where from. | Number of Cases. | How dealt with. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905. Jan. 17 | Tilbury Dock Station Restaurant | — | 1 | Removed to Port Sanitary Hospital. |
| Feb. 17 | " Worcester " Training Ship, lying off Greenhithe. | — | 3 | Removed to Ship's Hospital on Shore. |
| 18 | Ditto | — | 1 | Ditto. |
| 19 | Ditto | — | Ditto. | |
| „ 22 | Ditto | _ | 1 | Ditto. |
| 23 | Ditto | — | Ditto. | |
| March 17 | " Enterprise," of Folkestone, 52,632 | Hartlepool | 1 | Removed to Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. |
| „ 21 | s.s. "Afric," of Liverpool, 110,537 | Sydney | 1 | Removed to Port Sanitary Hospital. |
| „ 27 | " Worcester " Training Ship, lying off Greenhithe. | — | 1 | Removed to Ship's Hospital on shore. |
| „ 28 | Ditto | — | 1 | Ditto. |
| „ 4 | Ditto | — | Ditto. | |
| „ 9 | Ditto | — | 1 | Ditto. |
| „ 11 | Ditto | — | 1 | Ditto. |
| July 23 | s.s. "Vesta," of Hamburg | Hamburg - | 1 | Removed to Port Sanitary Hospital. |
| „ 28 | " Warspite " Training Ship, lying off Greenhithe. | — | 1 | Removed to Ship's Hospital on shore. |
| August 8 | Norway Cottage, Surrey Commercial Dock. | — | 1 | Removed to Hospital of Metropoli-tanAsylums Board. |
| Sept. 1 | s.s. " Montrose " | Montreal - | 1 | Ditto. |
| Oct. 8 | s.s. " Oruba," of Liverpool, 96,310 | Sydney | 1 | Convalescent on arrival at Plymouth. |
| „ 17 | s.s. " Fusilier,"of Manchester, 110,367 | Manchester | 1 | Removed to Hospital at Manchester |
| Dec. 30 | s.s. "Moultan," of Greenock, 117,397 | Bombay - | 1 | Removed to Hospital at Port Said. |
| Total - | 26 |