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In accordance with Article IV. of the Regulations, notice was duly given to all
persons interested to appear at the Guildhall to show cause why orders should not be
made for the areas given in the appended orders.
The meeting was held on July 25th at the Guildhall.
After full subsequent Report by your Medical Officer the following Orders
were made :—
PUBLIC HEALTH (SHELLFISH) REGULATIONS, 1915.
TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED.
WHEREAS the Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London
is the Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London and the "Local
Authority" for the purposes of the "Public Health (Shellfish) Regulations,
1915," and is hereinafter referred to as the Port of London Sanitary Authority :
And Whereas under the said Regulations the Port of London Sanitary
Authority received a representation from the Corporation of the Borough of
Southend, and also a Report from the Medical Officer of Health for the Port of
London Sanitary Authority, that the consumption of Shellfish brought from
certain layings situated within the district of the Port of London Sanitary
Authority is likely to cause danger to public health :
And Whereas the Port of London Sanitary Authority gave to the persons
interested in the public laying situated in the area hereinafter described notice
to appear before them on the 25th day of July last to shew cause why an Order
should not be made prohibiting, as the circumstances may require, the
distribution for sale for human consumption of Shellfish brought from the said
public laying situated in the area hereinafter described :
And Whereas the persons interested appeared on the 25th day of July
last before the Port of London Sanitary Authority, and in the opinion of the
Port of London Sanitary Authority sufficient canse is not shewn why an Order
should not be made as the circumstances require :
Now Therefore We, the Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London,
by this our Order and in pursuance of the powers of the " Public Health
(Shellfish) Regulations, 1915," DO prohibit the distribution for sale for human
consumption of Shellfish brought from the public laying situated on the foreshores
or waters immediately bordering thereon, or any tributary waters of that
part of the Estuary of the River Thames in the County of Essex, and to the
Westward of the Western boundary of the foreshore in possession of the
Corporation of Southend-on-Sea, comprising the foreshores of Canvey Island
Westward to the Chapman Light on the South, and to Benfleet on the North
of the Chapman Head and of Leigh-on-Sea, and including the Chapman Sands,
Canvey Point, Hadleigh Ray, Leigh Creek, Benfleet Creek, and the sands known
respectively as the Bargander, Leigh and Marsh End Sands, unless the Shellfish
have been re-laid in pure water for a period of at least four weeks.