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BO WATER, Mayor.
A Common Council holden in the Chamber of
the Guildhall of the City of London, on
Thursday, the 7th day of May, 1914.
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, 1913; 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 of London Sanitary Authority 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 the 31st December, 1913, which Report contains a full and detailed account
of the work done in the Port during that period by the Medical Officers and
Inspectors.
Your Committee have had under consideration the subject of existing safeguards
for the protection of this country from the introduction of Small-pox. It is a fact that
there is in this country a large and increasing number of persons unprotected by
vaccination, or revaccination, and in the view of your Committee, powers should be
given to the Port Sanitary Authorities to visit and inspect all persons on board ships
arriving from ports at which Small-pox is known or suspected to exist, and situated
within 14 days steaming of ports in this country—with powers and penalties similar to
those at present in existence under the Orders of the Local Government Board, relating
to Plague, Yellow Fever and Cholera.