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City of London 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

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The Port Health Authority have printed the following notice in English, French,
German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese,
Greek, Latvian, Estonian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Hindustani, Bengali, Marathi
and Gujarati.
The translations were kindly undertaken by the Consuls of the various countries,
and the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company generously printed, in
Bombay, the notices for Indian seamen.
VENEREAL DISEASES.
Syphilis (Pox) and Gonorrhœa (Clap) can be cured by skilful treatment in the
early stages. If treatment is neglected or unskilful these diseases become difficult to
cure and there is grave risk of years of ill-health and premature death to the sufferer
and of the spread of infection to others.
Skilled treatment free of charge and under conditions of secrecy can be
obtained at the following clinics at the times stated:—
London.
Seamen's Hospital, King William Syphilis—Monday and Wednesday,
Street, Greenwich, S.E. 10. 7 p.m. Gonorrhoea—Tuesday, 6 p.m.;
Friday, 7 p.m. (Merchant Seamen may
attend at any other time.)
Miller General Hospital, Greenwich Daily, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Road, Greenwich, S.E. 10.
Seamen's Hospital, Royal Albert Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday,
Dock, E. 16. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Wednesday 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to
12.30 p.m. (Merchant Seamen may
attend at any other time.)
London Hospital (Whitechapel Daily, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday,
Clinic), Turner Street, Mile End, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
E. 1.
Guy's Hospital, St. Thomas Street, Daily, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Borough, S.E. 1.
St. Thomas's Hospital, Westminster Daily, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday,
Bridge, S.E. 1. 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
St. Paul's Hospital, Endell Street, Daily, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday,
Covent Garden, W.C. 2. 10 a.m. to noon and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 20, Monday, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Thursday,
Golden Lane, E.C. 1. 12 noon to 2 p.m.
Gravesend.
22, Cobham Street, Gravesend. Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 12.45 p.m.;
Thursday, 4.45 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
The Sanitary Inspectors carry with them copies of this notice and leave one,
in the appropriate language, on every ship they visit. By courtesy of the Port of
London Authority this notice is also posted in all the latrines on the dock estate.
It is the duty of the Sanitary Inspectors to see that the notices are in the languages
of the seamen on board ships in the vicinity, and also that they are renewed when
necessary. Though they are not protected in any Avay, the notices have suffered much
less defacement than was anticipated.
Port Welfare.
The Port of London Health Authority are represented on the Port Welfare
Committee which was constituted in 1935 to promote the welfare of seamen ashore
in the Port of London. This organisation is still in its infancy but it has already
carried out a preliminary survey of the needs of seamen in the Port of London, has
published and issued free a Seafarers' Guide to London, and has, with the
co-operation of the British Sailors' Society, established in the vicinity of the docks,
information bureaux for the benefit of visiting seamen. Through these bureaux