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installed at the Operations Room and in the River Service launches working in the lower reaches
of the River. These launches will be in communication with the Operations Room by radio
telephone. The Operations Room will be in direct telephone communication with the Dockmasters'
offices at each of the five dock systems. The radio telephone set in the Operations
Room on the River Service frequency will be fitted so that it can be switched to the Port Health
frequency giving direct communication between the Operations Room and the two Port Health
launches.
The Port Health Authority are taking a tenancy of two rooms in the Operations Room building
for the use of the Boarding Medical Officers so that maximum advantage may be taken of the
improved information system.
SECTION VII- SMALLPOX
1. Name of Isolation Hospital to which smallpox cases are sent from the district.
Long Reach Hospital is situated on the south bank of the River Thames about eight miles
above Gravesend. The hospital consists of 10 ward blocks capable of accommodating 170
patients but, except in cases of emergency, only three ward blocks (2 of 20 beds and 1, a
cubicle ward of 10 beds), total 50 beds, are kept available for immediate use. The hospital
includes residential quarters for the staff and a laundry, although the administration and staffing
is carried out from Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford.
2. Arrangements for transport of such cases to that hospital by ambulance giving the name of
the Authority responsible for the ambulance and the vaccinal state of the ambulance crews.
A case or cases of smallpox would be removed from the vessel by this Authority's Ambulance
launch and conveyed ashore via the pontoon at Denton and from thence conveyed by road ambulance
direct to Long Reach Hospital.
The Port Health Authority would be responsible for the vaccinal state of their Ambulance
Launch crews while the vaccinal state of the Road Ambulance personnel would be the concern
of the South-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board under whose jurisdiction both Joyce
Green and Long Reach Hospitals fall.
3. Names of smallpox consultants available.
Dr. W.T.G. Boul Dr. H.S. Banks Dr. J.V. Armstrong
Dr. W.J. Coughlan Dr. J.P. Marsden
4. Facilities for laboratory diagnosis of smallpox.
Facilities are available at the Virus Laboratory at the Central Public Health Laboratory
at Colindale.
SECTION VIII-VENEREAL DISEASES
Venereal Diseases are not compulsorily notifiable but efforts are made by the Boarding
Medical Officers and the Port Health Inspectors to bring to the notice of all seamen using the
Port the facilities available for free treatment under the Brussels Agreement.
SECTION IX-CASES OF NOTIFIABLE AND OTHER COMMUNICABLE DISEASES ON SHIPS