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FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT, 1926
FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS REGULATIONS, 1960
Twenty-four samples of Feeding Stuffs were submitted to the Agricultural Analyst. No
sample of Fertiliser was sent.
In each case the sample was found to be within the limits of variation permissible under the
Regulations.
STUDENT AND VISITORS
Student Public Health Inspectors
Nine student public health inspectors were employed by the Authority. Two completed the
four year course and obtained the Diploma of Public Health Inspector and were subsequently
-appointed as Port Health Inspectors with the Authority.
A considerable number of student public health inspectors from other local authorities received
instruction in port health work
Visitors
Many doctors and public health inspectors from home and foreign government departments,
local authorities and institutes of health education visited the port during the year. The overseas
countries sending visitors included India, Hong Kong, Kenya, and Fiji
ARTICLES
The following articles written by the Medical Officer of Health have been published during
the year.
1. MEDICINE IN THE PORT OF LONDON
(Published in St. Bartholomew's Hospital Journal - Vol.LXXI No.6 - 1st June 1967)
There are many varied opportunities open to the medical practitioner to practise his profession
in unusual circumstances. An illustration which may not be generally well-known is the
appointment as a Boarding Medical Officer of the Port of London Health Authority. The
Corporation of the City of London was originally constituted the Sanitary Authority of the Port of
London under the Public Health Act of 1872. By the Public Health (London) Act of 1936 the title
was changed from the "Port Sanitary" to the "Port Health" Authority, and more recently under
the London Government Act of 1963 the Common Council of the City of London is reaffirmed as
the Port Health Authority for the Port of London. To complete this summary review of the Port
Health Legislation the limits of jurisdiction of the Port Health Authority formerly extended from
Teddington to The Nore, some 70 miles of the River Thames, including the creeks and five major
Dock groups as well as part of the River Medway. The jurisdiction was extended in 1965 some
22 miles eastwards into the Thames Estuary to be co-terminous With the new limits of that of the
Port of London Authority.
One of the many duties of the Health Authority is the control of the importation of infectious
diseases. This duty is carried out by a staff of Boarding Medical Officers appointed in the
department of the Medical Officer of Health. The Port Health Authority maintains a hulk, the
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