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BOWATER, Locum Tenens.
BADDELEY, Mayor.
A Common Council holden in the Chamber of
the Guildhall of the City of London, on
Thursday, the 27th day of July, 1922.
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, 1921; 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, 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, 1921, 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 Report records steady work in the detection of imported infectious epidemic
diseases and of developments in the destruction of rats on shipboard and in the docks,
with which the extermination of Plague is so closely associated.
In this connection special notice is drawn to the attention which is now given by
shipowners to the fumigation of their vessels, not only in home ports but abroad,
before taking in cargo, and it is hoped that it will shortly be apparent that the practice
is of sound economic value, apart from the safeguard it affords the public from the
point of view of Plague.
A progressive improvement is observed in the inspection of food imports and in
the general sanitary condition of the Port, the work of food inspection especially
having increased since the opening of the new King George V. Dock.