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DANGEROUS DRUGS.
During the year 13 certificates authorising the
purchase of scheduled Dangerous Drugs were issued by your
Medical Officer under the Dangerous Drugs (No.3) Regulations,
1923, amending the Dangerous Drugs Regulations, 1921.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936. PART X - CANAL BOATS.
On the 11th January, 1946, the Port Medical Officer
made a report on the steps taken to carry into effect the
provisions of Part X of the Public Health Act, 1936, relating
to Canal Boats within the district of the Port of London Health
Authority, during the year ended 31st December, 1945.
During the year 33 inspections of Canal Boats were made
of which 31 were found to conform to the Acts and Regulations.
Written cautions were given in respect of the two vessels found
not to conform.
No new boats were registered during the year under
review, the actual number of Canal Boats on the Register on the
31st December, 1945, being 216.
FOOD INSPECTION.
The inspection of foodstuffs under the Public Health
(Imported Food) Regulations, 1937, and the Public Health
(Preservatives, etc. in Food) Regulations, 1925-1927, resulted in
the seizure and destruction of 721 tons of foodstuffs, a decreasf
of some 517 tons as compared with last year.

WEEVIL INFESTED ZEDHI DATES.
In January a consignment of some 6,000 tons of dates
arrived in London and was distributed, for storage, in the Surrey
Commercial Dock (15,547 cases) and at wharves in the City of
London and the Boroughs of Southwark, Bermondsey, Stepney and
Poplar.