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CROSBY, Mayor.
A Common Council holden in the Chamber of
the Guildhall of the City of London, on
Thursday, the 18th day of April, 1912.
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, 1911 ; 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 carry into execution the powers
assigned to the Corporation, as the Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London,
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 31st December, 1911, which Report contains a full and detailed account of
the work carried out in the Port during that period by the Medical Officers and
Inspectors.
In the summary of Medical Inspection of Shipping arriving from Foreign Ports
as set out in detail by the Medical Officer, mention is made of the prevalence of
Cholera in the Mediterranean ports, and the necessity for careful examination of all
vessels arriving therefrom.
Plague has been more prevalent in India, but it is satisfactory to record that only
one rat was found infected with Plague within the district of the Port of London
Sanitary Authority during the year.