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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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| Date. | Name of vessel. | Owners. | Infringement. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Sailing barge "Arab" | Mr. W. H. Howlett | Loaded with an offensive cargo, to wit, noxious matter and liquid loaded otherwise than in a suitable tank or receptacle properly constructed and furnished with a sufficient covering so as to prevent any nuisance arsing therefrom. Refuse also loaded above the coamings. |
| Oct. 27 | |||
| Nov. 2 | Ltr. "Bendouin" | Cory Lighterage, Ltd. | Loaded with an offensive cargo, to wit, house refuse not properly and securely covered so as to prevent any nuisance arising therefrom, and also loaded above the coamings. |
| „ 2 | Ltr. "Historian" | Ditto | Ditto ditto. |
| „ 20 | Ltr. "Benin" | Ditto | Ditto ditto. |
TABLE XLII.—Alien Examination.
Attached is a table of Aliens examined in the Port of London during the year.
| Quarter ending. | No. of vessels carrying aliens. | Total No. of passengers. | No. of aliens found suffering from infectious and other diseases. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | |||
| 31st March | 151 | 3,166 | 3 |
| 30th June | 216 | 5,292 | 1 |
| 30th September | 221 | 6,658 | 5 |
| 31st December | 180 | 5,740 | 6 |
| Totals | 768 | 20,856 | 15 |
PUBLIC HEALTH (SHELLFISH) REGULATIONS, 1915.
ORDERS OF NOVEMBER, 1916.
In August and October representations were received from the Medical Officer
of Health for Southend that illegal collection and sale of mussels was taking place
from the Hadleigh Bay and in Leigh district respectively.
Certain offenders had been traced and warned by the Sanitary Inspector of
the district. A further warning was issued by your Medical Officer to these men.
There is evidence that some men persisted in regarding the boiling of mussels
in the same way as that laid down in the orders for cockles, as sufficient; there is
also alleged trickery on the part of others by way of mingling Dutch mussels with
those of the Bay.
Eventually the local Chairman of The Cocklers' Union took the matter up
and afforded your Medical Officer the opportunity of placing copies of the orders
where they can be understood and, if necessary, explained to the offenders. The
latter have also received copies of the orders, with stringent warning.
I am in hopes that the sale of these dangerous shellfish contrary to the orders,
will now be stopped.
No case of disease attributed to shellfish has been represented to your Medical
Officer during 1925.
In connection with shellfish and otherwise, a matter which is not yet ripe for
report, but which will obtrude itself in the future, is that of the Southend new
sewage scheme. On the 15th September, 1925, by the courtesy of the consulting
engineer to the County Borough of Southend-on-Sea Corporation, your Medical
Officer attended a preliminary meeting of parties interested at the Surveyors'
Institution, Great George Street, Westminster. Mr. Gibson was in the chair,
Dr. Bullock, Medical Officer of Health for the County of Essex, representatives of
the Surveying Department of the Port of London Authority and myself constituted
the meeting, at which the only question was one of flotation experiments.
Your Medical Officer produced a map of former flotation experiments conducted
in 1907, in connection with the former sewage scheme, to which further
interesting information has now been added.