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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Type of Vessels/Premises | Inspected | Defective | To be cleaned | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign Going: | Steam | 11,969 | 186 | 386 |
Sail | Nil | Nil | Nil | |
Coastwise: | Steam | 1,376 | 31 | 3 |
Sail | Nil | Nil | Nil | |
Sub-Total | 13,345 | 217 | 389 | |
Inland Navigation: | Steam | 124 | Nil | 2 |
Sail | Nil | Nil | Nil | |
Lighters | 573 | 7 | 25 | |
Canal Boats: | 160 | 72 | 7 | |
Shore Premises: | 10,923 | 245 | 209 | |
Sub-Total | 11,780 | 324 | 243 | |
TOTAL | 25,125 | 541 | 632 |
Areas where Foreign Going and Coastwise vessels were inspected
Dock and River | No. o f Inspections | ||
---|---|---|---|
London & St. Katherine | 1,206 | ||
Regents Canal | 479 | ||
Surrey Commercial | 1,462 | ||
East India | 266 | ||
West India | 1,222 | ||
Millwall | 661 | ||
Royal Albert | 1,237 | ||
Royal Victoria | 845 | "Alfred Roach" | |
King George V | 761 | 667 | "Howard Deighton" |
U pper River | 667 | ||
Middle River | 965 | "Frederick Whittingham" | |
Lower River | 791 | 1,756 | "Alfred Robertson" |
River Medway | 1,106 | ||
Tilbury | 1,677 | 10,922 | Inspected in Docks etc. |
TOTAL | 13,345 | 13,345 |
Nationalities of Foreign Going and Coastwise Vessels inspected
No. o f inspections | No. of inspections | ||
---|---|---|---|
American (U.S.A.) | 134 | 11,077 | |
Argentinian | 36 | Italian | 56 |
Belgian | 107 | Japanese | 80 |
Brazilian | 23 | Lebonese | 14 |
British | 7,508 | Liberian | 102 |
Bulgarian | 6 | Monrovian | 15 |
Costa Rican | 4 | Nigerian | 14 |
Danish | 188 | Pakistani | 5 |
Dutch | 1,390 | Panamanian | 67 |
Finnish | 227 | Polish | 67 |
French | 82 | Portuguese | 2 |
German | 1,072 | Russian | 147 |
Ghanian | 29 | South African | 11 |
Greek | 141 | Spanish | 163 |
Icelandic | 6 | Swiss | 6 |
Indian | 83 | Norwegian & Swedish | 1,377 |
Iranian | 10 | Turkish | 48 |
Israeli | 31 | Yugoslavian | 94 |
11,077 | TOTAL | 13,345 |
During 1961 Port Health Inspectors referred 79 sick seamen to hospital.