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The Port of London Act, which transferred the property of the Dock
Companies and the powers of the Thames Conservancy below Teddington
Lock to the Port Authority, became law. Your Committee urged strongly
that the sanitary clauses of the Thames Conservancy Act, which were proposed
to be transferred to the new Authority, should be administered by the Port
Sanitary Authority, and the Lord Mayor and your Medical Officer of Health
gave evidence before the Select Committee on this point. Your Committee
regret, however, that their efforts were unsuccessful.
The question of the purification of the River Thames and Estuary continues
to receive the careful attention of your Committee.
Particulars are given as to nuisances reported and dealt with during the
year, together with the administration of the Hospital for Infectious Diseases
at Denton, and also the number of cases admitted and discharged, and the
cost of maintenance, &c.
Details of the working of the Aliens Act are given, with the number of
alien passengers rejected by the Medical Officers during the year.
The Report also gives particulars of the inspection of canal boats under the
Canal Boats Acts and Regulations.
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 for the
information of the Court.
All which we submit to the judgment of this Honourable Court. Dated
this sixth day of April, 1909.
S. Pollitzer.
J. S. Robinson. Benj. Turner.
David Haydon. C. C. Hodges.
J. Banks Pittman. Chas. M. Wither.
Spencer W. Morris. Tyson Crawford.
Edward Hughes. W. H. Williamson.
S. Alderton. Fred. G. Dray.
John Stopher. Walter Dennis.
J. W. Domoney. Horace S. Dove.
James Lake.