[Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, River Tyne Port Sanitary Authority.

  • Tyne Port Sanitary Authority.
Date:
1903
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Credit: [Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, River Tyne Port Sanitary Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Regulations. Copies of Regulations issued have, as usual, been posted on all gangways, and delivered on board of vessels in the port. Cholera, Yellow Fever, and Plague. No cases occurred in the Tyne Port during the year 1908. Floating Hospital. During the past year a great improvement has been carried out at the Floating Hospital, a new separate Administrative Block with detached Laundry and Steam Disinfecting Chamber has been completed. The structure is moored North of the Hospital, two strong gangways give ready access to the main deck, and with the East, West, and South Wards it forms a spacious quadrangle. The Caretakers’ quarters comprise sitting room, kitchen, and three bedrooms ; Nurses’ accommodation is increased by one large bedroom (2 beds); the Laundry and Disinfecting Chamber is a separate structure. The steam launch can moor alongside at any time of tide, and the whole arrangement makes the Floating Hospital complete and a model hospital of its class. W. EDMUND HARKER, M.D., D.Hy., Medical Officer. Tynemouth, January 1904.