London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
This page requires JavaScript
Chicken pox—
| Date. | Name of Vessel, Port of Registry and Official No. | Where from. | No. of Cases. | How dealt with. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922. | Brought forward | 22 | ||
| July 11 | ss. " Orsova," of Glasgow, 128,272. | Brisbane | 1 | Landed at Colombo. |
| 12 | ss. " City of Genoa," of Liverpool, 143,111. | Cape Town | 2 | Isolated on board. |
| „ 29 | ss. " Malwa," of Greenock, 127,543. | Sydney | 2 | Landed at Bombay. |
| Dec. 5 | ss. " Rutenfjell " (Norwegian) | Aelvik | 1 | Admitted to Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. |
| Total | 28 | |||
ANTHRAX.
Information was received that a member of the crew of the ss. " Surrey "
was landed into hospital in Australia, suffering from Anthrax. The disease was
supposed to be due to a shaving brush the man had bought.
TABLE XXII.—Venereal Diseases.
| Date. 1922. | Vessel. | Case (nature of). | No. of cases. | Passenger or Crew Rating. | Advice given. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 9 | " Nyanza " | Gonorrhoea | l | Crew | Treated by Ship's Surgeon. |
| " Benalla " | Syphilis | l | Ditto | To attend Seamen's Hospital. | |
| Gonorrhoea | 3 | Ditto | |||
| 12 | " Viking Star " | Ditto | 3 | Ditto | Ditto. |
| „ 18 | " West Ivis " | Ditto | 1 | Ditto | Landed at Manila. |
| ,, 18 | " Favell " | Syphilis | 1 | Ditto | To attend Seamen's Hospital. |
| „ 18 | " Bominstad " | Orchitis | 1 | Ditto | Ditto. |
| Feb. 2 | " Clan MacVicar " | Gonorrhoea | 2 | Native crew. | Treated by Ship's Surgeon. |
| »» 7 | " Mashobra " | Ditto | 2 | Ditto | To attend Seamen's Hospital. |
| „ 16 | " Queen Alexandra " | Venereal bubo | 1 | Crew. | Ditto. |
| „ 20 | " Melford Hall " | Gonorrhoea | 1 | Ditto | To attend Gravesencl Hospital. |
| „ 28 | " Manela " | Syphilis | 3 | Native crew. | To attend Seamen's Hospital. |
| Mar. 6 | " Herefordshire " | Soft Chancre | 1 | D.B.S. | To Royal Infirmary, Liverpool. |
| „ 13 | " Cyclops " | Gonorrhoea | 6 | Crew | To attend Seamen's Hospital. |
| Ditto | Ditto | 25 | Naval ratings. | To Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth. | |
| Ditto | Chancroids | 11 | Ditto | Ditto. | |
| „ 26 | " Nagara " | Balanitis | i | Crew | Landed at Las Palmas. |
| „ 26 | " Atreus " | Syphilis | 2 | Ditto | To attend Seamen's Hos |
| pital. | |||||
| Apl. 5 | " Merton Hall " | Chancre | 1 | Ditto | Ditto. |
| „ 5 | " Boorah " | Syphilis | 1 | Ditto | Landed at Port Said. |
| „ 17 | " E. R. Boman " | Gonorrhoea | 1 | Ditto | To attend Seamen's Hospital. |
| „ 18 | " Intaba " | Gonorrhoeal rheumatism. | 1 | Ditto | Ditto. |
| „ 19 | " Delambre " | Soft sores and bubo | 2 | Ditto | Ditto. |
| „ 27 | " Cuthbert " | Gonorrhoea | 1 | Ditto | Ditto. |
| „ 27 | " Astrea " | Venereal bubo | 1 | Ditto | Ditto. |
| May 2 | " Orvieto " | Syphilis | 1 | D.B.S. | Proceeded to Manchester. |
| „ 8 | " Morvada " | Gonorrhoea | 1 | Native | To attend Seamen's Hospital. |
| „ 16 | " Malancha " | Venereal bubo | 1 | Crew | Ditto. |
| „ 19 | " Neuralia " | Syphilis | 1 | Passenger | Landed at Marseilles. |
| Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Butcher | To attend Seamen's Hospital. | |
| 20 | " Thorpe Grange " | Ditto | 1 | Greaser | To attend hospital in Liverpool. |