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PORT OF LONDON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
PORT SANITARY REGULATIONS, 1933.
Penalty for Breach of Regulations, £100.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGE OF ADDRESS WITHIN 14 DAYS OF
DISEMBARKATION.
Having disembarked from the s.s
on (date) my address from (date)
to (date) will be as under.
Name
Name and No. or Name of House
Full Address Street
Postal District
in
Block Letters
County
Signature
This Card may be sent through the post unstameped, but if It Is enclosed In an Envelope
Postage must be Prepaid.
Each half is addressed to the Medical Officer of Health of the Port of London.
The section on which the immediate address is written is collected by the Medical
Officer when he inspects the passenger. The section for notification of change of
address is on the "Business Reply Card" system so that the passenger need not
stamp it.
The importance of forwarding to Medical Officers of Health without delay the
names and addresses of contacts proceeding to other districts is fully appreciated, and
the clerical Staff work continuously until this task has been completed. Probably
few Medical Officers of Health realise the labour involved when there are seven or
eight hundred passengers and crew proceeding to destinations scattered all over the
British Isles.
There is no difficulty in the case of contacts going to the towns, but in the case of
those going to rural areas it is necessary to find out first the sanitary district in which
the place is situated and then to ascertain the address of the Medical Officer of Health.
I have been asked to indicate on the notifications the vaccinal state of the contacts,
but in the first place this would frequently delay the posting of the notifications and in
the second place the information would not relieve the Medical Officer of Health of
the responsibility of exercising surveillance, and so would not save him any trouble.
What, if any, arrangements have been made for:—
(a) Premises and waiting rooms for medical examination.
Medical examinations are usually carried out on board ship, but there are rooms
for the medical inspection of aliens on Tilbury Landing Stage and West Street Pier,
Gravesend.
(b) Cleansing and disinfection of ships, persons and clothing and other articles.
When cases of infectious disease are removed from ships on arrival during the
day time the Sanitary Inspector on the lower district puts the infected quarters under
fumigation with Sulphur Dioxide or Formalin, if he has time. If a case is removed
at night when the Sanitary Inspector is not on duty or if the ship is proceeding to
dock immediately, the infected quarters are sealed and disinfected after the ship
has berthed. Disinfections of large spaces are usually carried out by private firms
under the supervision of a Sanitary Inspector. A supply of sulphur candles, formalin
lamps, disinfectant solutions and a spray are available for every Sanitary Inspector.
At the Port Isolation Hospital there is a disinfecting station with spray and slipper
baths and a Washington Lyons Steam Disinfector. Close contacts with infectious
disease, clothing, bedding, &c., are taken by the boarding launch to this station,
disinfected and then returned to the ship.