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PORT OF LONDON SANITARY OFFICES,
51, KING WILLIAM STREET,
GREENWICH, S.E.
TO THE WORSHIPFUL THE PORT OF LONDON
SANITARY COMMITTEE.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present herewith my Annual Report for the year 1911,
being the tenth of the series.
A general view of the work of your officers, as shown by the tables accompanying
this Report, shows that the number of vessels arriving from foreign ports, which last
year showed a slight increase, has again lessened. (Tables I.-II.). All of these vessels
were visited by your Assistant Medical Officers.
The efficiency of the work of your Sanitary Inspectors, as shown by Tables III.,
IV., XXXI. and XXXII., has been maintained.
With regard to Infectious Diseases (Table V.), the number of cases reported is
larger than in any year of the previous decade—due to outbreaks of measles. The
number admitted to the Hospital also shows an advance in all the usual classes of
infectious diseases.
Cholera and Plague are dealt with in special articles, with particulars of the
precautions adopted in the Port of London.
The principal Infectious Diseases have also been separately dealt with.
The development of Food Inspection under the Regulations relating to the
Inspection of Foreign Meat and Unsound Food is an important matter, and I have
dealt with the subject at some length with a view to showing not only the enormous
amount of material to be dealt with, but also the necessity for the frequent attendance
of your Officers at all hours, day or night, and on Sundays, together with some of the
difficulties which arise from the continuous and simultaneous discharge of cargo from
several vessels in the same dock. Some special features in connection with parasitical
disease in foreign meat are also described.
With reference to alien immigrants, I have set out as in previous years, in table
form, figures relating to the number of such immigrants entering the Port of London.
The Staff, except for minor changes, remains the same. There have been no
additions to the executive during the past year, and it is proper to record that the
willing co-operation of all concerned has been fully maintained. A short account of
such changes as have taken place will be found on page 71.
To this Report is appended, as usual, my Annual Report on the working of the
Canal Boats Acts, and a statement of General Income and Expenditure.
During the year, 192 cases of dangerous and infectious disorders have been notified
to the Authority.