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Port of London 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

Published
1915
Pages
78
Tables
75

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    STAFF. List of Officers forming the Staff of the Port of London Sanitary Authority, 31st December, 1914.
    Office.Name of Officer.Date of Appointment
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    TABLE I. MEDICAL INSPECTION—GRAVESEND. From 1st January to 31st December, 1914.
    Jan.Feb.MarchAprilMayJuneJulyAug.Sept.Oct.Nov.Dec.Total.
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    COMPARATIVE TABLE.
    GRAVESEND.1905.1906.1907.1908.1909.1910.1911.1912.1913.Mean annual number for the 10 years ending 31st December, 1914.1914.
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    TABLE II. MEDICAL INSPECTION—SHEERNESS. From 1st January to 31st December, 1914.
    Jan.Feb.MarchAprilMayJuneJulyAug.Sept.Oct.Nov.Dec.Total.
  • Page 8
    COMPARATIVE TABLE.
    SHEERNESS.1905.1906.1907.1908.1909.1910.1911.1912.1913.Mean annual number for the 10 years ending 31st December, 1914.1914.
  • Page 9
    TABLE III. ALIEN PASSENGERS. LONDON.
    Total.Cabin.Exempt 2nd Class Passengers.Transmigrants,Other alien passengers.Proceeding to destinations outside the United Kingdom.Holiday return tickets.Seamen.Refused leave to land.Residents returning.Balance.Totals.
  • Page 9
    TABLE IV. Arrivals in the Port of London.
    Ships.Alien Passengers on
    Non-Immigrant.ImmigrantTotal.Non-Immigrant Ships.Immigrant Ships.Total.
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    TABLE V.— INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
    Disease.1905.1906.1907.1908.1909.1910.1911.1912.1913.Mean annual number for 10 years ending 31st December. 1914.1914.
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    TABLE VI. Return of the Number of Cases of Infectious Disease Notified to the Local Government Board during the Year 1914, and of Deaths from the Diseases Notified: —
    Notified.Deaths.
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    TABLE VII. Vessels and Premises Disinfected, from 1st January to 31st December, 1914.
    Month.Reason for Disinfection.Total Number of Disinfections.
    Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.Chicken-pox.Cholera.Continued Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Erysipelas.Beri-BeriMeasles.Whooping Cough.PlagueRemittent Fever.Scarlet Fever.Small-pox.Pulmonary-Tuberculosis, &c.Precautionary Measure.Vessels Fumigated.
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    TABLE VIII. Number of Disinfections of Effects, Bedding, &c., from 1st January to 31st December, 1914.
    Month.Reason for Disinfection.Hospital Bedding, &c.Total Effects.Number of times Steam Disinfector was used.Disinfected by Fumigation.
    Cholera.Chicken-pox.Continued Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric ever.Erysipelas.Measles.Pulmonary Tuberculosis, &c.Plague.Remittent Fever.Scarlet Fever.Small-pox.Precautionary measure.
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    TABLE IX. Plague.
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry and Official No,Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    Return of Rats caught and destroyed during 1914. The entire cost of destroying these rats has been borne by the Shipowners and Dock Companies.
    Jan.Feb.Mar.April.May.June.July.Aug.Sept.Oct.Nov.Dec.Totals.
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    TABLE XI. RETURN OF RATS EXAMINED BACTERIOLOGICALLY, 1914.
    Dock.No. Trapped.Found Dead.Infected Rats:
    Trapped.Found Dead.
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    TABLE XII. (Small-pox.)
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    TABLE XIII. (Scarlet Fever.)
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.Number of Cases.How dealt with.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    TABLE XIV. (Diphtheria , including Membranous Croup.)
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.Number of cases.How dealt with.
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    TABLE XV. Enteric Fever.
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    TABLE XVI. (Measles.)
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    TABLE XVII. (Erysipelas.)
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    TABLE XVIII. (Continued Fever.)
    Date. 1914.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    TABLE XIX. (Pulmonary Tuberculosis.)
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with
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    TABLE XX. Miners' Phthisis.
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where fromNo. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    TABLE XXI. Tuberculosis (other than Pulmonary).
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.Number of Cases.How dealt with.
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    TABLE XXII. Chicken-Pox.)
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.Number of Cases.How dealt with.
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    TABLE XXIII. (Whooping Cough.)
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    TABLE XXIV. (Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.)
    Date.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
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    TABLE XXV. (Beri-Beri.)
    Date of Arrival.Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number.Where from.Number of Cases.
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    TABLE XXVI. HOSPITAL. Number of Cases Admitted, Cost of Maintenance. &c.
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    Quantity and Description of Unsound Food Seized and Destroyed for the Year ending 31st December, 1914.
    Original packages.Sundry quantities by weight.Loose Articles.Approximate Total weight of Goods destroyed.
    No.Description.Tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.No.Description.Tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.
  • Page 36
    TABLE XXVIII. Description of Meat Destroyed.
    Year.Beef.Mutton.Veal, Pork, Offal.Tinned.Smoked and Salted, &c.Total.
    Tonscwts.qrs.lbs.Tons cwts.qrs. lbs.Tonscwts. qrs. lbs.Tons cwts.qrs.lbs.Tons cwts.qrs.lbs.Tonscwts. qrs.lbs.
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    The offal seized and destroyed comprised:—
    Tons.Cwts.Qrs.Lbs.
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    The following table shows the result of the examinaiion of some consignments of Offal:—
    Date.Name of Vessel.Where from.Description and Quantity of Goods found to be Diseased.Percentage of whole consignment.
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    TINNED MEATS. The tinned meats seized and destroyed comprised:—
    Tons.Cwts.Qrs.Lbs.
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    SMOKED AND SALTED. This class of meat, destroyed as unsound, consisted of:—
    Tons.Cwts.Qrs.Lbs.
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    The total quantity seized and destroyed included :—
    Tons.Cwts.Qrs.Lbs.
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    FRUIT ( Green). The goods 'seized under this heading show an increase of upwards of 47 tons compared with the previous year, and comprised:—
    Tons.Cwts.Qrs.Lbs.
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    The goods destroyed included:—
    Tons.Cwts.Qrs.Lbs.
  • Page 45
    FRUIT (Tinned and Bottled). The goods seized and destroyed included :—
    Tons.Cwts.Qrs.Lbs.
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    VEGETABLES.
    Fresh—Tons.Cwts.Qrs.Lbs.
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    The milk used for poultry food and confectionery purposes was only allowed to leave the district of the Port Sanitary Authority after your Medical Officer of Health had received a satisfactory guarantee respecting it and the Medical Officers of Health of the district to which the goods were proceeding were furnished with full particulars.
    Tons.Cwts.Qrs.Lbs.
  • Page 46
    BISCUITS AND CONFECTIONERY. The whole of the goods included under this heading formed part of the damaged cargo of a vessel which was sunk in the River Thames, and comprised :—
    Tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.
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    The total quantity dealt with was:—
    Tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.
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    PREPARED FOODS. These included:—
    Cwts.qrs.lbs.
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    Included under this heading are:—
    Tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.
  • Page 48
    During the year Notices were served under Articles III. (5), IY. (1) and VI. of the above-mentioned Regulations, for the exportation of the following meat:—
    Date of Arrival.Name of Vessel.Where from.Where lying.Description and quantity of meat in respect of which Notices were served.
  • Page 49
    The following table gives the results of the examinations made by your Officers :—
    Date of arrival.Name of Vessel.Number op Tongues.Percentage of Consignment.
    Examined.Found Diseased.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Date of Arrival.Name of Vessel.Number of Tongues.Percentage of Consignment.
    Examined.Found Diseased.
  • Page 51
    General Summary , and Analysis, of the Sanitary Inspections of Vessels, &c., in the Port of London, for the year ended 31st December, 1914.
    Foreign.Coastwise.Inland Navigation.Shore Premises.Sick Seamen referred to Hospital.Water Barges.
    Steam.Sail.Steam.Sail.Steam.Sail.Lighters (uninhabited).Canal Boats.
    I nspected.Defective.To be Cleaned.Inspected.Defective.To be Cleaned.Inspected.Defective.To be Cleaned.Inspected.Defective.To be Cleaned.Inspected.Defective.To be Cleaned.Inspected.Defective.To be Cleaned.Inspected.Defective.To be Cleaned.Inspected.Defective.To be Cleaned. |Inspected.Defective.To be Cleaned.No. in District in good condition, 31st December, 1914.New BargesCondemned.Use Discontinued.no. in District laltDeeember, 1914.
    1279811213977417773149332191660276843831812642923042168110957553224023324721161-—17
    Docks and River.No.Nationality.Arrived from Foreign Ports.No. of inspectionsArrivals Per cent, of Total.
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    COMPARATIVE TABLE.
    Total number of Inspections of vessels from—1905.1906.1907.1908.1909.1910.1911.1912.1913.1914.Yearly average for the 10 years ending 31st December, 1914
  • Page 53
    TABLE XXXIV. NUMBER OF NUISANCES ON VESSELS REPORTED AND DEALT WITH during the year ending 31st December, 1914.
    Description of Nuisances.January.February.March.April.May.June.July.August.September.October.November.December.Totals.
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    TABLE XXXV. NUMBER OF NUISANCES ON SHORE PREMISES REPORTED AND DEALT WITH during the year ending 31st December, 1914.
    Description of Nuisances.January.February.March.April.May.June.July.August.September.October.November,December.Totals.
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    SUMMARY.
    Smoke.Structural.Offensive Cargoes.Drainage, Sewage, &c.Miscellaneous,Totals.
  • Page 54
    TABLE XXXVI. POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS.
    January.February.March.April.May.June.July.August.September.October.November.December.Total.
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    TABLE XXXVII. SANITARY WORKS. Part I.
    Date completed.Works.
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    Part II. Sanitary Works and alterations, not yet reported as completed :—
    Date Plan submitted.Works.
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    Sixty-seven cases of infringement of the above-mentioned bye-laws were reported during the year. In each case written notice was sent to the owners of the barges concerned:—
    Date.Name of Vessel.Infringement.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Date.Name of Vessel.Infringement.
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    TABLE XXXIX.
    Date.Name of Vessel.Capacity in Cubit Feet.
  • Page 63
    The following boats were found, on inspection, to be unregistered within the meaning of the Act:—
    Date.Name of Boat.Registration Authority.Reason for Registration or Re-registration.
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    Absence of certificate was found in the following cases, a complaint being sent to the owners. In the case of the boats marked * information was received that the Certificates were subsequently placed on board:—
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    The following boats were found infringing in this respect. Those marked * were remedied:—
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    The following boats were found to require cleansing, and those on which the necessary improvement was made are marked *:—
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    The following boats were found to require painting with regard to the interior of the cabin, which was done in the cases marked *:—
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    Continued from previous page...
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    The following boats were found to require better ventilation. Those in which the alterations have been made, are noted thus*:—
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    Continued from previous page...
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    Table of Canal Boats Carrying Children on Board.
    Year.No. of boats.No. of boats with children.No. of children.Average No. of children per boat.Average No. of boats with children.
  • Page 69
    TABLE XL. SUMMARY OF CANAL BOATS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 ST DECEMBER, 1914.
    January.February.March.April.Hay.June.July.August.September.October.November.December.TOTAL.1909.TOTAL FOR THE YEAR1913
    1910.1911.1912.
  • Page 70
    ADMINISTRATION OF THE PORT OF LONDON (PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1891). Dr. REVENUE ACCOUNT for the Year ended 31st December, 1914. Cr.
    £d.£«.d.£s.d.£a.d.