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COOPER, Mayor.
A Common Council holden in the Chamber of
the Guildhall of the City of London, on
Thursday, the 11 th day of December, 1919.
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, 1918 ; which was read.
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. Willoughby Mason
Willoughby, the Medical Officer of Health of the Port of London, for the year ended
the 31st December, 1918, 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 work of your Medical Officers has been effectively carried out.
The total number of cases of infectious disease reported as having occurred on vessels
during the voyage was much above the average, and is explained by the prevalence of
epidemics of Influenza, &c., on vessels conveying troops.
Eight cases of Plague and four of suspected Plague were admitted to hospital.