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2. Article 27(18) of the Regulations provides that the SanitaryInspector
shall, as soon as practicable after the 31st day of
December in each year, furnish the Medical Officer of Health
with a tabular statement containing the following particulars:-
(a) The number and nature of inspections made by him
during the year;
(b) The number of notices served during the year,
distinguishing statutory from informal notices;
(c) The result of the service of such notices.
3. The records of the Authority should accordingly be kept in
such form as to enable the Medical Officer of Health to prepart
his Report without delay at the close of each year. The
Report should be in the form and sequence indicated herein
the lettering of the tables being adhered to.
4. The Medical Officer of Health should include in his Report anyl
comments which he may think desirable (1) under the several
heads indicated herein, and (2) in regard to the need for any I
developments ofc extensions which, in his opinion, are necessarl
to render the work of the Authority fully efficient.
5. In the case of those ports which are approved under the Aliens!
Order, 1920, for the landing of Aliens, the Medical Officer ofI
Health should report generally upon the work of medical
inspection of aliens."
The above-mentioned directives have been followed, in so I
far as the information asked for is available.
The tonnage of vessels entering the Port of London duringl
1947 was 19,923,674 tons as compared with 17,314,187 tons during 1946. I
Six thousand eight hundred and fifty vessels arrived from foreign portsl
and of these 1,303 were boarded by your Medical Officers.
One hundred and eighty three cases of communicable
diseases (including malaria) were reported as having occurred on 125
vessels during the voyage, of which 96 were landed in the Port.
Eighty six cases, of which particulars are given in
Appendix 11(b), were admitted to Infectious Diseases Hospitals. Fifty-I
one of these cases were admitted to the Port Isolation Hospital at
Denton which was opened for full operation on the 18th August, 1947.
No case of human plague occurred during the year on any
vessel bound for london.
Of the 1,009 rats examined bacteriologically 760 were
from vessels and 249 from shore premises,, No rat was reported to be I
infected with plague.
One hundred and fifty four vessels were fumigated for
rodent destruction and the issue of International Deratisation
Certificates under the supervision of your Inspectors, All were
fumigated with hydrogen cyanide (see Table H) accounting for 2,585 ratsH
and 390 mice.
A total of 8,538 rats were destroyed during the course ofH
the year, 4,476 in ships and 14,062 on shore premises in the Port. In I
addition 1,584 mice were destroyed, 447 in 8$ips and 1,137 on shore
premises.
The work under the Parrots (Prohibition of Import)
Regulations, 1930, still in operation, is reported on page 31.
The number of water barges in use in the Port was 11.
The registration of these craft by the Port of London Authority was
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