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106.
PORT OF LONDON HEALTH COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
(MONTAGU TRACERS MORGAN, C.M.G., M.C., M.D., Ch.B., D.P.H.)
TO 31st DECEMBER , 1950.
Port of London Health Authority,
5, Church Passage,
Guildhall, E.C.,2.
Telegraphic Address "P0RTELTH LONDON"
Telephone Number MONarch 3030.
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 DOM BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER THAMES TO AN IMAGINARY STRAIGHT LINE DRAM
FROM THE PILOT MARK AT THE ENTRANCE OF IIAVENGORE 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 FAVERSIIAM, AND EXTEND UP
AND INCLUDE BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER MEDWAY TO AN IMAGINARY STRAIGHT LINE DRAM
FROM THE SOUTH-EAST POINT OF LAND WESTWARD OF COALMOUTH CREEK, THENCE ACROSS THE
SAID RIVER MEDWAY TO THE TIE STERN -MO ST POINT OF THE PIECE OF LAND WHICH FORMS THE
EASTERN SIDE OF THE STANGATS 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 IWADE CHURCH,
BEING THE WESTERN LIMIT OF THE PORT OF FAVERSHAM, AND THE SAID PORT OF LONDON
INCLUDES THE ISLANDS OF IIAVENGORE CREEK AFORESAID, CALLED POTTON AND RUSHLEY
ISLANDS, AND SO MUCH OF THE SAID CREEK AND WATERCOURSE AS EXTENDS FROM IT TO THE
TOM OF ROCHFORD, AND ALSO INCLUDES ALL OTHER ISLANDS, RIVERS, STREAMS, CREEKS,
WATERS, WATERCOURSES, CHANNELS, HARBOURS, DOCKS AND PLACES WITHIN THE BEFOREMENTIONED
LIMITS CONTAINED.