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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

City of London 1971

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

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Table: SECTION IXCASES OF NOTIFIABLE AND OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES ON SHIPSTABLE D

SECTION IX

CASES OF NOTIFIABLE AND OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES ON SHIPS

TABLE D

Category:
Cases landed from ships from foreign ports.
No. of cases during the year.
DiseasePassengersCrewNo. of ships concerned
Amoebiasis—11
Chickenpox123
*Enteritis/Gastro-enteritis-22
Food poisoning (or suspected)-22
Infective hepatitis-22
Malaria-32
Measles1-1
Pneumonia134
Rheumatic fever1—1
Salmonellosis—32
Tuberculosis — Pulmonary-77
TOTALS42527
*One of these cases died in hospital. The P.M. investigations found that he died of malignant malaria.

Table: Category:Cases landed from coastwise arrivals.

Category:

Cases landed from coastwise arrivals.

DiseasePassengersCrewNo. of ships concerned
Scabies—11
Diarrhoea-11
TOTALS22

Table: Category:Cases landed from River Craft.

Category:

Cases landed from River Craft.

DiseasePassengersCrewNo. of ships concerned
NILNILNILNIL

Table: Category:Cases which have occurred on ships from foreign ports but have been disposed of before arrival.

Category:

Cases which have occurred on ships from foreign ports but have been disposed of before arrival.

DiseasePassengersCrewNo. of ships concerned
Diarrhoea-11
Gastro-enteritis—141
Infective hepatitis-11
Malaria—11
Pneumonia—11
Salmonellosis—11
Tuberculosis — Pulmonary—11
- Other—11
Typhoid-32
TOTALS-2410

Table: Category:Cases which have occurred on ships arriving coastwise but have been disposed of before arrival.

Category:

Cases which have occurred on ships arriving coastwise but have been disposed of before arrival.

DiseasePassengersCrewNo. of ships concerned
Diarrhoea—31
Tonsillitis-11
TOTALS-42