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City of London 1959

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

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LECTURES AND PAPERS
Dr. J. Greenwood Wilson
Numerous lectures and talks on the work of the Port Health Authority and allied subjects to
various organisations, including:
The Harvey Society, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College.
The Royal Institute of Public Health.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Annual Meeting of the Association of Sea and Air Port Health Authorities
—Paper on "Food Problems at Ports".
Contribution to Symposium at the XV International Tuberculosis Conference at Istanbul.
Mr. T.L. Mackie, M.B.E.
The Royal Institute of Public Health
—Paper on the "Clean Air Act and its application to shipping",
Mr. H.A. Marshall
Annual Conference of the Association of Public Health Inspectors
—Paper on "Application of the Clean Air Act to Shipping".
VISITORS AND STUDENTS
Facilities were afforded during the year to students of the London School of Hygiene, the
Royal Institute of Public Health, the National College of Food Technology, the Institute of
Education, and the South East London Technical College, to see aspects of Port health workand
to hear talks relating to their studies by members of the staff.
Public health workers were also welcomed from a number of countries, including Australia,
Burma, Denmark, Holland,Kuwait, Sweden, Turkey, U.S.A., and Yugoslavia. A party of members
of the National Society for Clean Air were enabled to visit shipping in Tilbury Dock for the purpose
of studying smoke control. In addition, assistance was given in training public health
inspectors attached to the Admiralty.
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