[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Morecambe & Heysham Port Health Authority.

  • Morecambe and Heysham (England). Port Health Authority.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Morecambe & Heysham Port Health Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - 3 - 3* Name(s) of smallpox consultant(s) available. Dr, D,C, Liddle, Monsall Hospital, Manchester, 4* Facilities for laboratory diagnosis of smallpox. Submitted to pathologists ordinarily employed by the Public Health Authority. Usually the pathologist attached to the Royal Infirmary, Lancaster, section vm , - VE?m DISEASE NO CHANGE SECTION IX _ -.CASES OF NOTIFIABLE AND OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES ON SHIPS TABLE D NIL RETURN SECTION X - OBSERVATIONS ON THE OCCURRENCE OF MALARIA IN SHIPS NIL RETURN SECTION XI . MEASURES TAKEN AGAINST SHIPS INFECTED WITH OR SUSPECTED FOR PLAGUE NONE NEEDED SECTION XII - MEASURES TAKEN AGAINST RODENTS IN SHIPS FROM FOREIGN mss 1. Procedure for inspection of ships for rats. Ships with expired certificates sent to Barrow. 2. Arrangements for the bacteriological or pathological examination of rodents, with special reference to rodent plague, including the number of rodents sent for examination during the year. Submitted to pathologists ordinarily employed by the Public Health Authority. Usually the pathologist attached to the Royal Infirmary, Lancaster. 3. Arrangements in the district for deratting ships, the methods used, and, if done by a commercial contractor, the name of the contractor. Not carried out. 4* Progress in the rat-proofing of ships. Not carried out.