[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Preston Port Health Authority.

  • Preston (Lancashire, England). Port Health Authority.
Date:
1959
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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Preston Port Health Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PORT a ALTH ADilNISTRAT Port Health District. The Port Health district a extends from Formby Point on the south to a point 2,350 yards south of the Victoria Pier, South Shore, Blackpool, on the north. The dock, which is 3,200 feet long by oOO feet wide, covers kO ac es and is approached by the entrance basin, 850 feet long by 300 feet wide, an area of acres. The communicating locks are 550 feet long and 66 feet wide, with a depth of 29 feet 6 in hes at high water ordinary spring tide. The dock in situited within the county borough and is about 16 miles along the fiver Ribble from the sea. The quays are over miles long. There are 170 acres of storage ground and 61, 25 superficial yards of covered floor s, ace* Easy access by road an rail facilitates cargo handling* Due to the lack of rain durinj the sprinr end s mnev months, heavy siltin of the river bed occurred. A dredger was brought to work near the dock entrance, to maintain the n vi able channel, but some interruption of traffic took place until the early part of the winter when flood waters supplemented and completed the work of the dredger. Considerable smoke emission came from this dredger and following representations to the owners the vessel was withdrawn from the port and replaced by an oil burning dredger which caused no nuisance. Smoke emi sion has been red iced from the repair an anintcnt&ce shops on the dock estate by part electrification and better care of furnaces. Experiments on the old mobile cranes with vertical boilers . ere in progress at the year end. A mixture of coke and cool reduced smoke considerably, while still enabling steam to be maintained in operation.