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CORPORATION OF LONDON
Port of London
Sanitary Authority.
COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens
of the City of London, as the Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London,
do hereby, by virtue of the power vested in them by Section 56 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, order that as from the 1st January next, the provisions of the
said Act with respect to Infectious Diseases shall apply in the district of the said Port
Sanitary Authority to CHICKEN-POX, in addition to the Diseases specifically
mentioned in Section 55 of the said Act, or any Order expending or amending the same,
and that such Order shall remain in force until the 31st December, 1912.
By Order of the Port Sanitary Authority,
Guildhall, London,
30th November, 1911.
JAMES BELL,
Town Clerk.
Telegrams—
"medoff, london."
Telephone—
36 new cross.
Notifications should be addressed to—
The Medical Officer of Health,
Port of London,
51, King William Street,
Greenwich, S.E.
FOOD INSPECTION.
The Regulations issued by the Local Government Board, under the Public Health
(Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, have been carried out strictly in the Port of
London. They have added considerably to the work, but the additional powers
conferred on this Authority have enabled the officers to exercise a stricter supervision
on all Foodstuffs entering the Port of London.
1. The Unsound Food Regulations specially deal with Unsound Food, and
practically extend those Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, dealing with
Unsound Food, so that they shall apply to ports and enable foodstuffs in larger
quantities to be examined, a contingency which was not definitely provided for in the
Public Health Act.
2. The Foreign Meat Regulations deal chiefly with the following subjects:—
(а) To prohibit the importation of Scrap Meat.
(b) To regulate the importation of Pork. Thus, Pork can only be
imported:—
1. In the form of the whole carcass, with all the glands present.
2. In the form of bacon, salted and pickled.
3. Contained in packages, bearing an Official Certificate which states
that the pig in question has been examined, both ante and post-mortem, and
found free from any appearance of disease. Such Official Certificates have to
receive the approval of the Local Government Board, and were only so
recognised, on the Board being satisfied as to the conditions and method of
inspection in the certifying country.