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ALIENS ORDER, 1920.
Medical Inspection of Aliens.
During the year 26,472 Aliens (excluding Alien Seamen) and 4,373 Transmigrants
landed in the Port of London from vessels.
Medical Certificates under the Aliens Order were issued in respect of 22 aliens
as follows:—
Lunatic, Idiot, or Mentally Deficient 9
Undesirable for Medical reasons 6
Physically incapacitated 6
Suffering from acute Infectious Disease 1
Total 22
TRAINING SHIPS.
The six Training Ships now within the district of the Port of London Health
Authority are as follows:—
" Corn-wall" Lying at Denton.
"Exmouth" „ Grays.
"Warspite" „ Grays.
"Worcester" „ Greenhithe.
"Stork" ,, Hammersmith.
"Triton" „ Gravesend.
The following cases of Infectious Disease occurred on these vessels during
the year:—
T.S. "Stork" 1 case Scarlet Fever.
T.S. "Cornwall" 1 case Scarlet Fever.
Ditto 10 cases Diphtheria.
T.S. "Triton" 1 case Measles.
Ditto 1 case Mumps.
Training Ship "Cornwall"—Immunisation against Diphtheria.
Owing to the occurrence of a number of cases of diphtheria on the T.S. "Cornwall"
your Medical Officer was requested to arrange for the immunisation of all the boys.
The cost of the material was borne by the Home Office. The actual injections were
given by Dr. J. A. Jones, one of your Assistant Medical Officers, who reports as
follows:—
Method.
Three injections of 1 c.c. each, at fortnightly intervals, using T.A.F.
A preliminary Schick Test was not undertaken, as the Home Office wished the immunising injections
to be commenced at once.
First Injection, 8th May, 1936.
Number of boys on roll 170
„ „ injected 161
Of the remaining nine boys, four were in Denton Hospital, who, as they had been given A.D.S.
received no injections in this series. One boy was licensed on the morning of the 8th, and received no
injection. The other four were absent, having absconded, but were caught and received their injections
the next day (9th), making a total of 165 injected.
In this number, there were no general reactions, but local reactions were present in seventeen cases.
In thirteen cases this amounted to swelling and tenderness only, whilst in the other four there was in
addition slight redness.
Second Injection, 22nd May, 1936.
Number of boys on roll 161
,, ., injected 151
Since the first injection another seven boys bad been licensed, and one sent to Borstal, accounting
for the difference in number on roll. Two more boys were in Denton Hospital with Diphtheria, giving a
total of six, two boys were home on leave, one boy sent to a Sanatorium and one absconded. This
accounts lor the difference between the number on roll (161) and number injected (151).
There were twenty-five local reactions, and in eight of these there was redness in addition to
swelling and pain. The reactions were generally more severe than those following the first injections,
but in no case was there lymphangitis. Two boys complained of malaise and headache, but neither
had a local reaction or pyrexia. Six boys had reactions after both first and second injections.