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Should weather or other conditions make it inadvisable to land a case at Gravesend, the
patient may be allowed by the Boarding Medical Officer to proceed up River in the ship to the
dock, in which event arrangements are made with the Emergency Bed Service for the case to be
removed by ambulance to a suitable hospital immediately the ship berths.
The number of cases admitted to Denton Hospital in 1965 was as follows:
Chickenpox 3
Bronchitis 1
Gastro-Enteritis 1
Cellulitis 1
Glandular Fever 1
Infectious Hepatitis 1
Influenza 3
Influenza and Pneumonia 1
Malaria 1
Miscellaneous 3
Mumps 2
Sore Throat 1
Tonsillitis 2
TOTAL 21
(b) Surveillance and follow up of contacts
In the event of a vessel arriving on which there has been a case or cases of a major infectious
disease, all persons on board are considered to be possible contacts.
Each contact is interrogated and makes out a form giving full details as to name and the
proposed address in the United Kingdom to which he is proceeding immediately on disembarkation.
These particulars, together with an appropriate note of the circumstances, are then forwarded to
the Medical Officer of Health of the district in which the address of the contact is situated. He
is also given a two-part card, one part setting out the surveillance conditions under which he is
allowed to disembark and the other for use by him only if he should change his address within a
specified period, usually up to the end of the inoculation period of the disease in question. This
part of the card is on the 'Business Reply Card' system and so does not have to be stamped.
A specimen of the card used for smallpox contact is reproduced below:—
Please Read Carefully and retain.
CORPORATION OF LONDON
PORT HEALTH AUTHORITY
PUBLIC HEALTH (SHIPS) REGULATIONS 1952 to 1963
In accordance with the above Regulations you are permitted to disembark under
surveillance (Medical Supervision) on the following conditions:—
1 That you complete and give to the Medical Officer of Health of the Port of London
the Address Form S.2. supplied with this card.
2. That if you change your address at any time within 14 days of disembarkation you
shall notify forthwith your new address to the Medical Officer of Health of the Port
of London on the attached card.
3. That if you should feel ill within the next 14 days you will at once report to a
doctor, and inform him that you may have been in contact with smallpox.
4 Surveillance will be carried out by the Medical Officer of Health of the local
authority in whose district you will be staying.
Guildhall,
London, E.C.2. PENALTY for breach of the Regulations, £100.
Monarch 34)30
CORPORATION OF LONDON
PORT HEALTH AUTHORITY
PUBLIC HEALTH (SHIPS) REGULATIONS 1952 to 1963
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGE OF ADDRESS WITHIN 14 DAYS
OF DISEMBARKATION
Having disembarked from the S.S
on (date) my address from (date)
to (date) will be as under.
Name
Surname Forenames
No. or Name of House
Street
Town and Postal District
County .
Signature
This card may be sent through the post unstamped but if it is enclosed in an envelope,
postage must be prepaid.
6000-263—Al124
PLEASE USE BLOCK LETTERS
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