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One rat plague infection was discovered in an entering vessel during the year ;
the detection shows at once the necessity for a methodical scrutiny of ships from
foreign Ports and the efficiency of the method adopted.
The opening out of trade on the West Coast of Africa has resulted in malignant
malaria in epidemic form on ships, a problem fully dealt with in the Report.
A close scrutiny of the methods of hydrocyanic acid fumigation is being made
in the Port with a view to determining their relative worth, and their efficiency
as compared with sulphur dioxide methods.
Food inspection and the Sanitary inspection of ships have been efficiently
carried out by your Officers.
An Account of Receipts and Expenditure in connection with the Port of
London Sanitary Authority for the year ended the 31st March, 1923, is appended,
in accordance with the Order of your Honourable Court, for the information of
the Court.
All which we submit to the judgment of this Honourable Court. Dated this
5th day of June, 1923.
Leo Taylor.
E. L. Laws. J. G. Howell.
W. W. Green. W. Fortesque.
Thos. Goldney. E. L. J. Durant.
Edw. C. Weston. G. J. Nicholls.
J. S. Pearse.