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PORT OF LONDON HEALTH COMMITTEE
PLON 56
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
(MONTAGU TRAVERS MORGAN, C.M.G., M.C., M.D., Ch.B., D.P.H.)
TO 31st DECEMBER, 1948.
Port of London Health Authority.,
5, Church Passage,
Guildhall, E.C.2.
Telegraphic Address "PORTELTH LONDON".
Telephone Number CIERKENWELL 2011.
LIMITS OF THE PORT OF LONDON.
THE LIMITS OF THE PORT OF LONDON AS AT PRESENT DEFINED COMMENCE AT HIGHHATER
MARK IN THE RIVER THAMES AT TEDDINGTON LOCK, IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY, AND
EXTEND DOWN BOTH SIDES OF TIE RIVER THAMES TO AN IMAGINARY STRAIGHT LINE DRAWN
FROM THE PILOT MARK AT THE ENTRANCE OF HAVENGORE CREEK, IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX,
TO THE LAND'S END AT WARDEN POINT, IN THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY, IN THE COUNTY OF KENT,
SUCH POINT BEING THE NORTH -WESTERN LIMIT OF THE PORT OF FAVERSHAM. AND EXTEND UP
AND INCLUDE BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER MEDWAY TO AN IMAGINARY STRAIGHT LINE DRAWN
FROM TIE SOUTH-EAST POINT OF LAND WESTWARD OF GOALMOUTH CHEEK, THENCE ACROSS TIE
SAID RIVER MEDWAY TO TIE WESTERN-MOST POINT OF THE PIECE OF LAND WHICH FORMS TIE
EASTERN SIDE OF TIE STANGATE CREEK , OR, IN OTHER WORDS THE NORTH-TEST POINT OF
FLEET MARSH AND FROM THENCE IS A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION TO IWADE CHURCH IN THE SAID
COUNTY OF KENT, AND THENCE IN A NORTH-EASTERLY DIRECTION TO ELMIEY CHAPEL IN TIE
SAID ISLE OF SHEPPEY, A SUPPOSED DIRECT LINE FROM ELMIEY CHAPEL TO IWADE CHURCH,
BEING THE WESTERN LIMIT OF TIE PORT OF FAVERSHAM, AND TIE SAID PORT OF LONDON
INCLUDES TIE ISLANDS OF HAVENGORE CREEK AFORESAID, CALLED POTTON AND RUSHLEY
ISLANDS, 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 PUCES WITHIN TIE BEFOREMENTIONED
LIMITS CONTAINED.