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AC 4369I
PLON 54
102.
PORT OF LONDON HEALTH COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
(MONTAGU TRAVERS MORGAN, M.C., M.D., Ch.B., D.P.H.)
TO 31st DECEMBER, 1946.
Port of London Health Authority„
5, Church las sage,
Guildhall, E.C.2.
Telegraphic Address "P0RTE1TH LONDON".
Telephone Number CLERKENWELL 2011.
LIMITS OF THE PORT OF LONDON.
THE LIMITS OF THE PORT OF LONDON AS AT PRESENT DEFINED COMMENCE AT HIGHWATER
MARK IN THE RIVER THAMES AT TEDDINGTON LOCK, IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY, AND
EXTEND DOWN BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER THAMES TO AN IMAGINARY STRAIGHT LINE DRAWN
FROM THE PILOT MIRK AT THE ENTRANCE OF HAVENGORE CREEK, IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX,
TO THE LAND'S END AT WARDEN POINT, IN THE IS IE OF SHEPPEY, IN THE COUNTY OF KENT,
SUCH POINT BEING THE NORTII-WESTERN LIMIT OF THE PORT OF FAVERSHAM, AND EXTENT UP
AND INCLUDE BOTH SIDES OF T1IE RIVER MEDWAY TO AN IMAGINARY STRAIGHT LINE DRAWN
FROM THE SOUTH-EAST POINT OF LAND WESTWARD OF COALMOUTH CREEK, THENCE ACROSS THE
SAID RIVER MEDWAY TO THE WESTERNMOST POINT OF THE PIECE OF LAND WHICH FORMS THE
EASTERN SIDE OF THE STANGATE CREEK, OR, IN OTHER WORDS THE NORTH-WEST POINT OF
FLEET MARSH, AND FROM THENCE IN A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION TO IWADE CHURCH, IN THE
SAID COUNTY OF KENT, AND THENCE IN A NORTH-EASTERLY DIRECTION TO ELMLEY CHAPEL
IN THE SAID ISLE OF SHEPPEY, A SUPPOSED DIRECT LINE FROM ELMLEY CHAPEL To MADE
CHURCH, BEING THE WESTERN LIMIT OF THE PORT OF FAVERSHAM, AMD THE SAID PORT OF
LONDON INCLUDES THE ISLANDS OF HAVENGORE CREEK AFORESAID, CALLED POTTON AND
RUSHLEY IS LANDS, AND SO MUCH OF THE SAID CREEK 'AND WATERCOURSE AS EXTENDS FROM
IT TO THE TOWN OF ROCHFORD, AND ALSO INCLUDES ALL OTHER ISLANDS, RIVERS, STREAMS,
CREEKS, WATERS, WATERCOURSES, CHANNELS, HARBOURS, DOCKS AND PLACES WITHIN THE
BEFORE-MENTIONED LIMITS CONTAINED