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CORPORATION OF LONDON.
PORT OF LONDON SANITARY AUTHORITY.
NOTICE
to
Masters and Officers in Charge of Vessels arriving at or being within the Port of
London, and to all others whom it may concern.
Illness.
1. All cases of illness o£ whatever nature which have occurred on board a
vessel from Foreign daring the voyage or during the stay in any port of lading
must be declared to the Medical Officer of Health or other officer of this Authority
immediately on arrival of the vessel within the Port.
An arrival from Foreign is visited by a Medical Officer at Gravesend or at
Sheerness for this purpose.
Infectious
Disease.
2. Hjvery case or infectious disease being or occurring on board a vessel within
the Port must be notified forthwith to the Medical Officer of Health or other officer
of this Authority.
Dead or
Sick Rats.
8. The finding of dead or sick rats on board daring the voyage must be
notified immediately on arrival to the officer visiting the ship at Gravesend or
Sheerness.
4. The finding of dead or sick rats on board on opening the hatches or during
the discharge of narcro in the Port, of London mast be notified forthwith to the
Vermin other
than Ilats, and
Insanitary
Conditions.
Medical Officer of Health or other officer of this Authority.
5. Verminous or other insanitary conditions of any nature in the living
quarters or holds of a vessel must be reported to an officer of this Authority.
Assistance or
Information
Rats.
u. Hivery assistance ana information required Dy an omcer or this Authority
must be given, and his directions must be complied with.
7. Measures must be taken—
(a) To destroy the rats on the ship.
(b) To prevent the escape of rats from the ship to the shore.
There are HEAVY PENALTIES for non-compliance with the terms of these
directions.
(See the Port Sanitary Authorities (Infectious Diseases) Regulations, 1920, and the Rats and
Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919.)
Offices: 51, King William Street, W. M. WILLOUGHBY, M.D.,
Greenwich, London, S.E, 10. Medical Officer of Health,
Telephones: Greenwich 360. Port of London.
Gravesend 325.
February, 1921.