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The following circular was addressed to Port Sanitary Authorities :—
Prevention and Treatment of Venereal Diseases.
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.,
19th October, 1916.
Sir,
I am directed by the President of the Local Government Board to forward
for the information of the Port Sanitary Authority the accompanying copies of
the circular letters and regulations issued by this Department on the 13th July
and the 29th August last, with reference to the prevention and treatment of
venereal diseases.
Mr. Long considers that the facilities to be provided by the Councils of
Counties and County Boroughs under the Public Health (Venereal Diseases)
Regulations, 1916, should be available for seamen of whatever nationality who
frequent the ports of England and Wales, and I am to suggest that the Port
Sanitary Authority should confer with the Council or Councils responsible for
carrying out these regulations in the area under the jurisdiction of the Port
Sanitary Authority (1) as to the best means of ensuring that the facilities to be
provided are made use of by seamen frequenting the port, and (2) as to the
need for any special facilities for the treatment of seamen.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
F. J. WILLIS,
The Clerk to the Port Sanitary Authority. Assistant Secretary.
It will be noted that the facilities for treatment are to be available for seamen of
whatever nationality who frequent the ports of England and Wales.
From inquiries made it appears that the following Treatment Centres will be
available and at hand for the use of seamen in the Port of London :—
On the South side of the River:—
Guy's Hospital, London Bridge.
Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.
Gravesend Hospital, Gravesend.
On the North side :—
The London Hospital, Whitechapel.
The shipping aggregates of the Pool, St. Katharine and the London Docks,
Millwall, East and West India Docks, and Surrey Commercial Dock, and Tilbury Dock
are thus provided for in the near future ; but a centre at hand for the Royal Albert and
Victoria Dock, with their aggregate of shipping manned largely by natives of India,
should form the subject of conference with the controlling authorities of the County
and County Boroughs in which these docks are situated.
Every opportunity is and will be taken by the Medical Staff and the Sanitary
Inspectors under your Worshipful Committee for the furtherance of the purposes of
the Regulations.