[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Gloucester City & Port.

  • Gloucester (England). City and Port Council.
Date:
1920
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    \on are further required to take, whilst in dock, all necessary steps such as fixing and maintaining efficient rat guards to all mooring ropes and hawsers, and keeping all gangways raised during the night for preventing the escape of rats and mice from the ship, and also for preventing the ship from becoming infested with rats or mice from tine shore. Masters failing to carry out these requirements are liable to penalties of £5 and £20. During the year no vessel was subjected to special measures for rat destruction. The following is the list of vessels that arrived from plague infected Ports :— S/S Cilumum. S/S Frank Parish. S/S Septah. S/S Sadko. S/S Baldine. S/S Fuku Maru. S/S Wm. Middleton. None of the above vessels were found to be infested with rats, in most cases they had been fumigated at the port of loading and rat precautions taken to prevent rats gaining access to the ship afterwards. Whilst they were in dock here, rat- traps and cats were employed by the Masters to see if any could be caught, but only a few were so caught. The question of appointing a rat-catcher is under con- sideration by the Port Sanitary Sub-Committee. J. R. BIBBY, M.B., D.P.H., Port Medical Officer of Health. F