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1 (a) International Vaccination Certificates (Regulation 9 (3) )
By the provision of the Public Health (Ships) Regulations, 1966, the Medical Officer may
require the production of international certificates of vaccination against smallpox by persons
arriving from abroad and will require production of such certificates if so requested by the Minister
of Health. The Minister has requested that all persons arriving on ships coming within 14 days
from smallpox locally infected or endemic areas be in possession of such a certificate and this
applies whether the persons have themselves come from these areas or not.
Because of the difficulty of examining vaccination certificates of persons arriving in the
Port of London where ships discharge their passengers at widely divergent points, shipping
companies have been asked to arrange for lists of smallpox vaccination certificates of passengers
and crew, counter-signed by the Master and by the ship's surgeon, if carried, to be produced on
the arrival of the ship in the Port.
2. Radio Messages
(a) Arrangements for sending permission by radio for ships to enter the district (Regulation 13):-
NO CHANGE
(b) Arrangements for receiving messages by radio from ships and for acting thereon. (Regulation
14 (1) (a) and 14 (2) ):—
NO CHANGE
3. Notifications otherwise than by radio (Regulation 14 (1) (b) )
Arrangements for receiving notifications otherwise than by radio and for acting thereon:—
NO CHANGE
3(a) Maritime Declaration of Health (Regulation 16)
During the year the instructions to Masters contained in the Maritime Declaration of Health
were altered to read as follows:—
PUBLIC HEALTH (SHIPS) REGULATIONS, 1966
DIRECTIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
These directions and requirements are made by the Medical Officer of Health for the Port and
City of London in pursuance of the Public Health (Ships) Regulations, 1966 and compliance
therewith is required by virtue of Regulation 36 of the said Regulations.
TO THE MASTER OF ANY SHIP APPROACHING THE PORT OF LONDON
FROM A FOREIGN PORT
I You should ascertain the state of health of all persons on board.
II You must complete, sign and deliver the foregoing Maritime Declaration of Health unless
your ship has on this voyage been only to excepted Ports or has already been cleared at a
Port in the United Kingdom. Make sure that all parts are completed and that it is countersigned
by the ship's surgeon if one is carriedi.
III If the answer to any question on page 1 is 'Yes' OR if your ship has, during the last 28 days,
been in any Port in all Asia, Africa (including transit through the Suez Canal) the Americas
(excluding the U.S.A., Canada and transit through the Panama Canal) or any area locally
infected with a quarantinable disease, you must:—
(A) send a Wireless Message to "Portelth London" stating
(1) the name of the ship,
(2) the estimated time of arrival in the Lower Hope Reach. If your ship is berthing or
anchoring below the Lower Hope, give the estimated time of arrival and the name
of the berth or anchorage.
(3) numbers, ages and sex of all persons on board who are ill and your best estimate of v
what is wrong with them.
This message must be sent not more than 12 hours and whenever practicable not less
than four hours before the estimated ti me of arrival.
(B) (1) If your ship is proceeding to a mooring or berth in the Port down river of No. 1
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