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an address in your area were on board the ship and I should be glad if you would
kindly visit then at the earliest moment to ascertain if they are healthy and to
keep them under observation for sixteen days from the date of their disembarkation,
i.e., up to the 28th February.
Will you also make sure that if they change their address, the Medical
Officer of Health of the area to -which they are proceeding is notified of their
arrival so that he may continue to keep them under observation.
Vaccination might afford protection should they have contracted the disease
just prior to disembarkation and if they are not in possession of a certificate of
recent vaccination, you may consider it wise to offer them vaccination.
Yours faithfully,
Dr .M.T.MORGAN
Medical Officer of Health,
Port of London.
No. Name. Address.
To The Medical Officer of Health.
ANNEXE II.
Port of London Health Authority,
Telephone: 5, Church Passage,
Monarch 3030. Guildhall, London, E.G.2.
Dear Sir,
A case of suspected smallpox has occurred on board the R.M.S. "Strathmore"
vtiich arrived at Tilbury on February 12th.
The undermentioned person(s), passenger(s) on the "Strathmore", gave on
disembarkation an address, care of your Bank/Organisation and you will appreciate
that I am very anxious to trace all the ship contacts. Without your help I shall
be unable to do so.
I should be grateful, therefore, if you -mould give the address to which
your client has proceeded. I appreciate that normally you are averse to disclosing
the addresses of your clients, but I feel sure you will agree that in the
circumstances it is of paramount importance that I should be able to get into touch
with a possible contact -without delay so as to ensure that he has not developed the
infection and lias thereby incurred what might be a fatal risk to himself and to
others. In order to secure his supervision I must report his address to the
Medical Officer of Health of the district in which he is resident, who will visit
him daily during the balance of the incubation period of the disease.
I should be most grateful if you would do everything in your power to
help me to trace the undermentioned person(s). Any information you supply will,
of course, be treated in strict professional confidence.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.M.T.MORGAN,'
Medical Officer of Health,
Port of London.
No. Name.
SUSPECTED CASE OF SMALLPOX IN s.s. "RANCHl".
Information «s received by telephone from the Medical Superintendent of
the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., at 11.30 a.m., on Saturday, 28th
April to the effect that a suspected case of smallpox had been found in a tourist
class passenger just after the vessel had left Port Said, home-ward bound®
After consultation it was decided to radio the ship requesting that all
on board should be vaccinated or re-vaccinated and that all close contacts should
be kept under strict surveillance.
The cabin and contents occupied by the patient was to be sealed and on the
vessels arrival at Marseilles pathological material was to be sent by air to
Colindale Laboratory for tests to be carried out.
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