[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Littlehampton Port Health Authority.

  • Littlehampton (England). Port Health Authority.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Littlehampton Port Health Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -2- * IV. PORT SANITARY REGULATIONS, 1955. i. I' t (1) and (2). Every foreign going vessel arriving from a foreign, port is boarded by the Customs Officer immediately on arrival, and the Captain asked to fill in and sign a Declaration of Health which is immediately sent to the Office of the Port Sanitary Officer. (3) Any-notification of an inward'vessel requiring attention under Article 6 would be received through the Harbour Master and Pilots. (4) A Mooring Station has been designated as required by Article 10 of the Regulations, and is situated immediately North of the Railway Quay, on the East side of the River Arun. It has been.agreed with the Harbour Master that should this berth, bo in ube when required for quarantine, an alternative berth will be found for the vessel then occupying it. The provision of an additional .Mooring Station outside the Harbour is considered impracticable. No vessel has been detained for medical.examination during the year. (5) No standing exemptions to the provisions of Article 14 have been granted. (6) It has not been necessary to.place any restriction under Section 16, on persons boarding or leaving vessels' as, in every case, the Declarations of Health have been satisfactory. (7) (a) No arrangements have been made for the cleansing and disinfection of persons, but clothing could be disinfected by steam at Mill House, Littlehampton when required. (b) • No arrangements have been made fpr.the provision of temporary accommodation of persons- for whom such may be re.quired under the Regulations. , (’c) No arrangements have been made for 'special premises, and waiting room for medical examination. Such would'.have to ^e improvised when occasion arises. .(d) There is now in operation the East Sussex Western Joint Smallpox Hospital Board, and cases of Smallpox could be isolated at the Brede and Sedgobrook Isolation Hospital, Chailey, Near Lewes. Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Enteric lever and Encephalitis Lethargies, could be isolated at the Isolation Hospital, Swandean. If any case of Plague' Cholera, or Yellow Fever arrived on a vessel, special’ arrangements would have to be made. (8) and (9j- Spec! me ns for bactor can be.sent to any of the two or iological•qr■pathological examination th-ree local laboratories. (10) Clinics for the treatment and diagnosis held at the Worthing Hospital, Lyndhurst Road, Portsmouth Hospital ..(.St. MaryQs) Portsmouth, s Western parts of West Sussex respectively. of venereal, diseases are Worthing, and the Royal erving the Eastern and TABLE C. infccti0U3 sickhess has been notified' 't'c$ the Port Medical Officer during the year. * »* ' ■ •. ** t t TABLE-D. •' No cas<j of infectious sickness ha-s occurred on vessels during voyage and'disposed of prior to arrival. e - 3 aurinS tile