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Water Barges« Thirteen water barges -were in use during the year® The
registration of these craft by the Port of London Authority is made conditional
upon a report of your Officers as to the fitness of the barges for the carriage
of drinking isater as also upon the purity of the -water thus carried®
House Boats. The new House Boat Byelaws are still in draft form.
Imported Foods. The total amount of foodstuffs seized and condemned as unfit for
human consumption and either reconditioned or disposed of for animal consumption
or for industrial purposes under guarantee or destroyed outright either by burning
or burying -was 1,917 tons 18 cwts 2 qrs 14 lbs, as compared with 2,661 tons during
1950 and 1,711 tons during 1949. (See page 24).
Shellfishs Action taken under the Public Health (Shellfish) Regulations, 1934, is
reported on page 28.
Instruction of DaP.H. and D.I.H. Glasses in Port Health work. Post-Graduate Students
of the Royal Institute of Public Health and the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine taking their course for the Diploma in Public Health and in
Industrial Hygiene again paid visits to one or other of the Dock Groups and were
given practical demonstrations of the day to day -work of the Port Health Service
on the River and in the Docks.
Visit of Foreign Medical Officers to the Port,, A number of foreign Medical
Officers and other Port Health Administrators visited the Port during the oourse
of Port Health and Sanitary Control arranged under the auspices of the British
Councils A detailed report of the itinerary covered is given on page 32.
Your Medical Officer wishes to record his appreciation of the collaboration
and assistance rendered by the Officers of His Majesty's Customs, of the Port of
London Authority, the Pilots and members of the staffs of the Shipping Companies
and Merchants, in every aspect of the work of the Port Health Authority throughout
the year.
Your Medical Officer also has pleasure in reporting that all members of
your staff have carried out their duties both willingly and efficiently®
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
M.T. MORGAN.
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