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City of London 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

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Table: APPENDIX V.-General Summary and Analysis of the Sanitary Inspections, etc., in the Port of London for the year ended 31st December, 1953.

APPENDIX V.-General Summary and Analysis of the Sanitary Inspections, etc., in the Port of London for the year ended 31st December, 1953.

Foreign Going. Steam-ยกรถInland Navigation.-Continued, Sail-
Inspected9,527Inspected3
Defective351Defective1
To be cleaned541To be cleaned1
Sail-Lighters-
Inspected-Inspected567
Defective-Defective1
To be cleaned-To be cleaned24
Canal Boats-
Coastwise. Steam-Inspected12
Defective
To be cleaned-
Inspected1,531Shore Premises.
Defective51
To be cleaned108Inspected8,087
Sail-Defective79
To be cleaned227
Inspected26
Defective-Sick Seamen referred to Hospital105
To be cleaned-Water Barges.
Inland Navigation. Steam-No. in district in good condition on 31st December, 195214
New Barges-
Condemned-
Inspected70Use discontinued3
Defective1Previously withdrawn and since resumed work-
To be cleaned4No. in district on 31st December, 195311
Inspections.Dock and River.No. Nationalities.No.
Total InspectionsLondon and St. Kats.American (U.S.A.)88
804 Argentinian26
1st January toBelgian57
31st December, 1953:-Regent's Canal256 Brazilian12
Foreign Going9,527 Surrey Commercial1,543 British7,415
Coastwise1,557Costa Rican2
Inland Navigation640Danish248
Shore Premises8,087 East India221 Dutch1,271
Finnish176
Total19,811 West IndiaFrench111
930 German624
Millwall582 Greek69
Number of Vessels inspected in the LaunchesRoyal AlbertHonduras11
1,007 Indian30
Royal VictoriaIsraeli14
790 Italian95
"Alfred Roach "Japanese25
" Howard Deighton"1 745 King George V.734 Liberian.38
Monro vian6
"Frederick Whittingham"1,432 River-UpperPakistani4
1,432 Panamanian80
Polish29
"Alfred Robertson".River--Middle752 Portuguese44
752Roumanian3
3,929Russian46
South African3
River-LowerSpanish33
1,745 Swedish and Norwegian1,038
River MedwaySwiss15
Turkish.23
Tilbury928 Uruguayan4
Yugo Slavian84
In Docks, etc.7,795 Total Vessels11,724 Total Vessels.11,724
Shore Premises8,087 Shore Premises8,087 Shore Premises .8,087
Total19,811 Total19,811 Total19,811