London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
This page requires JavaScript
Continued from previous page...
| Office | Name of Officer | Date of entering the service |
|---|---|---|
| Deckboy | P.M. Meekham | June 1951 |
| ditto | K.R. Rees | July 1951 |
| ditto | E.G. Andrews | July 1951 |
| ditto | C.G. Edwards | September 1951 |
| ditto | K.G. Seagull | September 1951 |
| ditto | D. Pollitt | November 1951 |
| Steward (Part time) | J.F. Smeed | July 1927 |
| Shipkeeper | A.R. Burge | August 1945 |
| ditto | A.C. Croft | October 1950 |
| Watchman | A. Lovey | May 1951 |
| ditto | W.J. Mace | May 1951 |
LAUNCHES Date acquired
"Howard Deighton" 1931
"Frederick Whittingham" 1934
"Alfred Robertson" 1938
"Alfred Roach" 1948
HULKS
"Hygeia" at Gravesend 1935
"Uplees" at Greenwich 1945
Januarys 1952.
To
THE WORSHIPFUL,
THE PORT OF LONDON HEALTH COMMITTEE.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report as Medical Officer of Health of
the Port of London.
The report is prepared on the lines indicated in Memorandum 302/s.A., in so
far as the information asked for is available.
Tonnage. The tonnage of vessels entering the Port of London during 1951, was
28 , 3 15 , 7 29 tons as compared with 26 9724,215 tons during 1950. Eleven thousand
seven hundred and forty nine vessels arrived from foreign ports and of these
1,880 were visited by your Medical Officers (Table A).
Communicable Disease. Three hundred and forty cases of notifiable communicable
diseases (including malaria) were reported as having occurred on 170 vessels
during the voyage, of whioh 188 were landed in the Port. (Tables C and D).
Sixty-three cases* particulars of which are given in Appendix Il(b) were
admitted to the Denton Isolation Hospital*
No case of human or rat plague occurred during the year on any vessel
bound for London.
Fumigations. One hundred and fourteen vessels were either fumigated, trapped or
poison baited for rodent destruction and the issue of International Certificates
under the supervision of your Inspectorso One hundred and thirteen vessels were
fumigated using hydrogen cyanide and resulted in the recovery of, 2,110 rats and
438 mice. The one vessel on which poison baits were used accounted for 56 mice.
Rodents. A total of 9,811 rats were destroyed and their bodies recovered during
the course of the year, 2,729 in ships and 7,082 on shore premises in the Port.
In addition 2,824 mice were destroyed, 603 in ships and 2,221 on shore premises.
(Tables "E" and "F").
psittacidae. The work under the Parrots (Prohibition of Import) Regulations,
in operation up to the end of the year, is reported on page 27.
(3)