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MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The number of vessels medically inspected is not quite so large as during
the previous two years.
This diminution is due, of course, to the number of arrivals from ports
which are infected with Cholera, Yellow Fever or Plague, being less than in
former years.
Gravesend.—Table I.
Your Medical Officers have been called upon to investigate 9 cases of
Cholera and 4 cases of Plague, either actual or suspected, which had occurred
on vessels during the voyage, besides a number of cases of Small-pox and
other Infectious Diseases, details of which are given elsewhere.
I have again to express my thanks to the Officers of H.M. Customs for
their courtesy and co-operation in carrying out the work of medical inspection
on vessels arriving from foreign.
Sheerness.—Table II.
The work of medical inspection at Sheerness, carried out by Dr. Legge,
shows no relaxation, and the number of vessels medically inspected on
arrival off Garrison Point Fort is again larger than during preceding years,
and above the average.
The total number of vessels inspected was 376.
A Notice Board, pointing out the Boarding Station for the Port of London
and Rochester, has been erected on Garrison Point Fort, Sheerness, and is
clearly visible from the sea. Masters of incoming vessels, bound up the
Medway in the daytime, will no longer be able to plead ignorance as to the
whereabouts of the boarding station.