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SECTION VII
SMALLPOX
1. Name of Isolation Hospital to which smallpox cases are sent from the District.
Long Reach Hospital is situated on the south bank of the River Thames about eight miles
above Gravesend. The hospital consists of 10 ward blocks capable of accommodating 170 patients
but, except in cases of emergency, only three ward blocks (2 of 20 beds and 1, a cubicle ward,
of 10 beds, total 50 beds) are kept available for immediate use. The hospital includes residential
quarters for the staff and laundry, although the administration and staffing is carried out from
Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford.
2. Arrangements for transport of such cases to that Hospital by ambulance giving the name of
the Authority responsible for the ambulance and the vaccinal state of the ambulance crews.
A case or cases of smallpox would be removed from the vessel by one of this Authority's
ambulance-launches and conveyed ashore via the pontoon at Denton and from thence conveyed
by road ambulance direct to Long Reach Hospital. .
The Port Health Authority would be responsible for the vaccinal state of their ambulancelaunch
crews, while the vaccinal state of the Road Ambulance personnel would be the concern
of the ambulance authority, the Greater London Council.
3. Names of smallpox consultants available.
Dr. W.T.G. Boul, M.B.E.
Dr. A. Melvin Ramsey
Dr. C.F.L. Hill (Bexley; Bromley; Greenwich and West Kent)
Dr. G.D.W. McKendrick
Dr. E.O'Sullivan
Dr. E.H. Brown
Dr. J.D. Kershaw
Dr. H.P. Lambert
Dr. R.T. Emond
4. Facilities for laboratory diagnosis of smallpox.
Facilities are available at the Virus Reference Laboratory at the Central Public Health
Laboratory, Colindale, N.W.9.
SECTION VIII
VENEREAL DISEASE
Information as to the location, days and hours of the available facilities for the diagnosis
and treatment of venereal disease among merchant seamen under international arrangements,
including in-patient treatment and the steps taken to make these facilities known to seamen.
No change.
SECTION IX
CASES OF NOTIFIABLE AND OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES ON SHIP
TABLE D
Category
Cases landed from ships from foreign ports.

'Died in hospital. The P.M. investigation indicated that death was not due to leptospirosis.
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