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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
1913, being the twelfth of the series.
The total number of vessels arriving in the Port of London, from "foreign"
during the year, was 9,727 at Gravesend, and 324 at Sheerness, the average for the
past ten years being 9,679.2 at Gravesend, and 331.9 at Sheerness.
It is the largest number so arriving at Gravesend since the year 1906.
Of the total arrivals, 1,948 were medically inspected at Gravesend, and 268 at
Sheerness.
The details of these figures are given in Tables I and II.
In Tables III and IV will be found some figures relative to Alien Immigration'
but these figures are subject to revision on publication of the complete official returns
but the Home Office.
Infectious Disease is dealt with in Tables V to XXV, with details of the cases
which exhibited points of public interest.
Food Inspection is now well established as an important section of the work, and
in the section of this Keport in which this is specially dealt with, full particulars will be
found of the work done and the quantities of material dealt with.
The details of sanitary inspection are summarised in Tables XXXIV to XXXVII,
and this section of the work has been well and efficiently maintained, notwithstanding
the strain at times put upon these officers by the exigencies of food inspection.
The working of the Canal Boats Acts is dealt with in the usual special annual
report on this subject, which is appended to this Report.
In relation to the Census of 1911, I have been able to extract some figures dealing
with the population of the Port as expressed by the number of persons enumerated as
residing within the Port on vessels, &c., at the time of taking the Census. Although,
this population is personally a changing one, it is shown to be remarkably constant as
to numbers.