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City of London 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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ALIENS ORDER, 1920.
Medical Inspection of Aliens.
During the year 19,977 Aliens (excluding Alien Seamen) and 2,733 Transmigrants
landed in the Port of London.
Medical Certificates under the Aliens Order were issued in respect of 9 Aliens as follows :—
| Lunatic, Idiot or Mentally Deficient | 4 |
| Undesirable for Medical reasons | 4 |
| Physically incapacitated | 1 |
| Total | 9 |
DANGEROUS DRUGS.
On the 25th May your Medical Officer certified that the Master of the
ss. " Havsten " was authorised to purchase and be in possession of 24 x 0'25 grain
tablets of morphine for the use of the ship until it next reached its home port.
The Certificate was issued under the Dangerous Drugs (No. 3) Regulations, 1923,
amending the Dangerous Drugs Regulations, 1921, Regulation 15 of which is as
follows :—
" If a foreign ship in any port in Great Britain requires to obtain a supply of any
of the drugs in order to complete the necessary equipment of the ship, the Master of
the ship is authorised to purchase and be in possession of such quantity of any of the
drugs as may be certified by the Medical Officer of Health of the Port where the
ship is (or in his absence by the Assistant Medical Officer of Health of the Port)
to be necessary for the purpose, the quantity not to exceed what is required for the
use of the ship until it next reaches its home port. The certificate given by the
Medical Officer or Assistant Medical Officer of Health of the Port shall be marked by
the supplier with the date of the supply, and shall be retained by him and kept available
for inspection."
TRAINING SHIPS.
The six Training Ships lying within the district of the Port of London Sanitary
Authority are as follows :—
"Arethusa" Lying at Greenhithe.
"Cornwall" „ Denton.
''Exmonth" ,, Grays.
"Warspite" ,, Grays.
"Worcester" ,, Greenhithe.
"Stork" ,, Hammersmith.
The following cases of Infectious Disease occurred on these vessels during
the year:—-
T.S. "Arethusa" 4 cases Scarlet Fever, 10 cases German Measles, and 1 case
Tuberculosis (other kinds).
T.S. "Worcester" 4 cases Chicken-pox.
T.S. " Stork " 3 cases Scarlet Fever, 1 case Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, and
3 cases Measles.
By special arrangement twelve boys from the T.S. "Arethusa" were admitted to
Denton Hospital for isolation and treatment.
IMMUNISATION AGAINST DIPHTHERIA.
For some years arrangements have from time to time been made through your
Medical Officer for the boys of the T.S. "Cornwall " to be tested for susceptibility to
Diphtheria, and for those giving a positive reaction to be immunised. Last autumn
the Captain Superintendent reported that he had 119 boys who had not been tested.
Your Medical Officer communicated with Dr. R. A. O'Brien, of the Wellcome