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into this country and there is no excuse for any attempt to depart from these
standards which can, without difficulty, bo complied with by factories properly
equipped for canning meat and fish.
DANGEROUS DRUGS.
During the year eleven certificates authorising the purchase of
scheduled Dangerous Drugs 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) 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 ACT, 1936 - PART X - CANAL BOATS.,
On the 9th January, 1949, 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
Health Authority, during the year ended 31st December, 1948.
No Canal Boats were encountered within the district of the Port of
London by your inspectors during the year.
No new boats were registered during the year under review, the actual
number of Canal Boats on the Register on the 31st December, 1948, being 216.
PARROTS (PROHIBITION OF IMPORT) REGULATIONS, 1930.
Sixty-eight parrots etc., came under notice of your officers during the
year, and 40 notices were issued in respect of these birds. One parrot
died on board and the body was sent to the Ministry of Health for examination.
Number exported in respect of notices served 66
"destroyed (notice issued to export) 1
"died on board 1
TOTAL 68
HOUSEBOATS.
As the result of the entry into force of the Southend-on-Sea Corporation
Act, 1947, a number of houseboats lying in the Creeks now taken over by the
Corporation have been broken up.. Unfortunately a certain number of houseboats
capable of being removed from the area have taken up residence in some
of the adjoining creeks and some of them continue to be a nuisance and a
danger to the public health.
The Authority's draft new Bye laws aiming at the registration of houseboats
and a better control tending to improve their hygienic condition have
not been well received by the Riparian Authorities concerned who do not
wish to see any houseboats moored on their foreshores. The opposition of
the Riparian Authorities threatens to render the Bye laws inoperable on
account of the lack of facilities offered to the houseboats for the disposal
of night soil and refuse and for the provision of a suitable water supply.
These facilities cannot obviously be offered to houseboat dwellers by the
Port Health Authority, consequently the new Houseboat Byelaws are still sub
judice.
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