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DANGEROUS DRUGS.

These Certificates were 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."
PUBLIC HEALTH (AIRCRAFT) REGULATIONS, 1938.
The above-mentioned Regulations which came into force on the 1st July, 1938,
are designed to prevent the introduction of infectious diseases into this country
through the medium of air-borne traffic, and resemble in their general scope the
Port Sanitary Regulations, 1933, which were made to secure a similar object in regard
to water-borne traffic. The Regulations have been made in conformity with the
International Convention for Aerial Navigation, 1933.
The responsible Authority for the execution of the Regulations is:—
(1) In regard to an aerodrome maintained by a Local Authority, but
situated in the district of another Authority, the maintaining authority, with
the proviso that the two Authorities concerned may agree on such terms and
conditions as they think fit, and with the approval of the Minister, that one
of them shall undertake the execution of, and appoint the officers for executing
the whole or specified provisions of the Regulations at such aerodrome.
This may be of interest in relation to the proposed aerodrome at Fairlop.
(2) The Port Health Authority, if the aerodrome is situated in a Port
Health district.
(3) The Local Authority, if the aerodrome is situated elsewhere than in a
Port Health district.
The Authority responsible for the administration of the Regulations must appoint
a staff and provide or arrange for the provision of the premises, apparatus and equipment
necessary for the execution of the Regulations.
It will be necessary to make arrangements for the medical inspection of persons
arriving or departing on foreign-going aircraft, and for the other services such as
hospital accommodation, ambulance transport, laboratory examinations, disinfection,
disinsectisation, and possibly deratisation.
There is not at the present time any aerodrome within the Port Health district,
and it does not appear likely that one will be established in the near future, but these
Regulations will no doubt affect the arrangements to be made at the aerodrome
which, I understand, the Corporation propose to establish at Fairlop.