Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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| Foreign Going | Inland Navigation -Continued | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspected | 9,973 | 3 | ||||
| Defective | 305 | Defective | — | |||
| To be cleaned | 462 | To be cleaned | ||||
| Inspected | Inspected | 983 | ||||
| Defective | 19 | |||||
| Defective | ||||||
| To be cleaned | — | To be cleaned | 1 1 | |||
| Coastwise | ||||||
| Inspected | 77 | |||||
| Defective | 18 | |||||
| To be cleaned | ||||||
| Inspected | 2,070 | Shore Premises | ||||
| Defective | 47 | |||||
| To be cleaned | 84 | Inspected | 8,213 | |||
| Defective | 830 | |||||
| To be cleaned | 703 | |||||
| Inspected | 8 | Sick Seamen referred to Hospital | 94 | |||
| Defective | ||||||
| To be cleaned | - | |||||
| Inland Navigation | Water Barges | |||||
| No. in district in good condition on 31st December, 1954 | 14 | |||||
| New Barges | - | |||||
| Condemned | — | |||||
| Use discontinued | 1 | |||||
| Inspected | 138 | Previously withdrawn and since resumed work | ||||
| Defective | 6 | |||||
| To be cleaned | 7 | No. in district on 31st December, 1955 | 13 | |||
| American (U.S.A.) | 130 | |||||
| Total Inspections | London and St. Kats. | 948 | Argentinian | 30 | ||
| 1st January to | Belgian | 69 | ||||
| 31st December, 1955 :— | Regent's Canal | 526 | Brazilian | 14 | ||
| Foreign Going | 9,973 | Surrey Commercial | 1,359 | British | 8,933 | |
| Coastwise | 2,078 | Burmese | 2 | |||
| Inland Navigation | 1,124 | Costa Rican | 34 | |||
| Shore Premises | 8,213 | Danish | 145 | |||
| East India | 216 | Dutch | 1,031 | |||
| Total | 21,388 | Eire | 2 | |||
| Finnish | 167 | |||||
| French | 94 | |||||
| West India | 956 | German | 554 | |||
| Millwall | 506 | Greek | 91 | |||
| Honduras | 11 | |||||
| Number of Vessels inspected in the Launches :— | Icelandic | 3 | ||||
| Royal Albert.. | 1,353 | Indian | 30 | |||
| Israeli | 18 | |||||
| Royal Victoria | 885 | Italian | 62 | |||
| "Alfred Roach" | ( 1,786 | Japanese | 55 | |||
| "Howard Deighton" | King George V. | 896 | Liberian | 99 | ||
| "Frederick Whittingham" | 947 | Maltese | 1 | |||
| River—Upper | 947 | Moroccan | 7 | |||
| Pakistani | 2 | |||||
| "Alfred Robertson" | 587 | River—Middle | 587 | Panamanian | 103 | |
| Polish | 25 | |||||
| Portuguese | 3 | |||||
| Puerto Rican | 2 | |||||
| River—Lower | 1,786 | Roumanian | 4 | |||
| Russian | 63 | |||||
| River—Medway | 804 | Spanish | 66 | |||
| Swedish and Norwegian | 1,238 | |||||
| Swiss | 10 | |||||
| Tilbury | 1,406 | Turkish | 16 | |||
| Yuge Slavian | 61 | |||||
| In Docks, etc. | 9,855 | Total Vessels | 13,175 | Total Vessels | 13,175 | |
| Shore Premises | 8,213 | Shore Premises | 8,213 | Shore Premises | 8,213 | |
| Total | 21,388 | Total | 21,388 | Total | 21,388 | |