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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

City of London 1916

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

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Date.Case.Passenger or Crew Rating.Advice given.
1916. Sept. 14Venereal buboSailorTo attend Tilbury Hospital.
„ 14GonorrhœaFiremanTo attend Royal Albert Dock Hospital.
„ 16ChancreSailorDitto.
„ 19Soft chancre and buboDo.Ditto.
„ 25Soft chancre buboTwo sailorsUnder treatment by ship's surgeon.
„ 26GonorrhœaFiremanTo go to Tilbury Dock Hospital.
„ 26DittoApprenticeDitto.
„ 26DittoNaval passengerTo be treated by Naval Authorities.
„ 28Gonorrhœa] rheumatismSailorTo go to Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.
„ 30Soft chancre buboEngineerTo consult practitioner.
„ 30GonorrhœaSailorTreated by ship's surgeon.
„ 30Soft chancre buboDo.To go to Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.
Oct. 2Buboes, syphilisTrimmerDitto.
„ 5GonorrhœaTwo sailorsCured by ship's surgeon.
„ 7Soft chancreQuartermasterTo go to Royal Albert Dock Hospital.
„ 7DittoSailorDitto.
„ 7Soft chancre buboD.B.S.To go to London Hospital.
„ 9SyphilisStewardTo go to Royal Albert Dock Hospital.
„ 9BuboSailorTo go to Poplar Hospital.
„ 11GonorrhœaDo.To go to Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.
„ 16ChancreDo.Ditto.
Nov. 1GonorrhœaTwo firemenDitto.
„ 1DittoSailorDitto.
„ 1Soft chancreDo.Ditto.
„ 9DittoDo.To attend Poplar Hospital.
„ 11DittoFiremanTo attend Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.
„ 14Gonorrhœa and bubo -SailorAttended by ship's surgeon.
„ 14SyphilisFiremanTo attend Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.
20DittoSailorDitto.
„ 20DittoFiremanDitto.
„ 21Suppurating buboSailorTo go to Royal Albert Dock Hospital.
„ 28SyphilisD.B.S.To go to hospital at Glasgow.
„ 29GonorrhœaSailorTo go to hospital at Southampton.