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JOHNSTON, Mayor.
A Common Council holden in the Chamber of
the Guildhall of the City of London, on
Thursday, the 22nd day of April, 1015.
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, 1914; 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, 1914, which Report contains a full and detailed account
of the work done in the Port during that period by the Medical Officers and
Inspectors.
The attention of your Committee has been drawn to the diminution in the number
of ships arriving from Foreign Ports. This, as pointed out, is due to the closing of the
Baltic and the Dardanelles, and the action of the British Fleet in preventing the arrival
of vessels from Germany and Austria.
The Medical Officer draws attention to the fact that Austrian troops have been
engaged in the Western area of the War, and as cases of cholera have occurred amongst
the Austrian troops in Galicia, he thinks it possible that the infective organism of
cholera may have been introduced into Belgium and the Northern places, and that with
the onset of warm weather, this danger may have to be met, and guarded against.