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A full answer, with a plan and map of the disinfecting station and Port Sanitary
District was returned, and will eventually find a place in what should prove a useful
compendium of the quarantine methods in vogue throughout the world.
SANITARY INSPECTION.
The total number of visits of inspection paid by your Officers during the year was
slightly below that for the preceding year. Among other reasons for this are the
diminished number of Officers devoting the whole of their time to this particular work
in the Docks, and the serious difficulty experienced in river transport from restricted
fuel supply.
Figures relating to this important branch of the work of your Officers will be
found in the Tables, which show that the total number of visits was 29,246, of which
8,365 were to vessels from foreign, 15,451 to vessels coastwise and inland navigation,
and 5,430 to various premises on shore (Table XII.).
Orders for the cleansing of crews' quarters were necessary in 1,742 cases, equal to
7'3 per cent. of the total inspections of vessels.
The total number of nuisances found on vessels, inclusive of the foregoing, was
2,005 (see Table XIII.), Avhile 591 were reported with reference to shore premises,
making, with two on the River, a grand total of 2,598 nuisances, equal to 8'88 per cent.
of the total inspections.
The total number of cases where abatement of nuisance involved some form of
structural alteration was 131, while the number reported carried out was 106, or 80.9
per cent.
In dealing with the total number of nuisances, namely 2,598, written intimations
were necessary in 140 cases only, equal to 5.3 per cent.
This is testimony to the efficiency of the work carried out by your Officers, in
preventing nuisances such as accumulations of offensive refuse, which readily occur in
Docks, &c., in the absence of adequate supervision.
No Police Court proceedings have been found necessary during the year.
In relation to shore premises, Table XIV. gives some particulars of various
sanitary works carried out under the supervision of your Officers in accordance with
plans submitted to your Worshipful Committee from time to time.
Such plans are submitted by amiable arrangement between parties. The Port
Sanitary Authority should, however, be in a position to insist, if necessary, upon
presentation of plans of all drainage and allied work to be constructed within the
district of the Port, and to enforce alteration or modification if required.