[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Folkestone Port Health Authority.

  • Folkestone (England). Port Health Authority.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Folkestone Port Health Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PORT OF FOLKESTONE. Public Health Department, Foord Road, FOLKESTarE. April, 1956. To His Worship the Mapor, Aldermen and Councillors of the xsorough and Port of Folkestone, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlenen, I herewith submit the Annual Report on the raedioal aspect of the vjorking of the Port of Folkestone for 1955. Regul8T boat services during the year have been as follows ^olkestone-Calais. (D**Daily passenger service by French steamer, Cote D*Azur, and reliefs by British Railw'a3rs steamer from 1st January to 31st December, 1955. (Outv/ard bound service took Golden Arrow passengers.) (b) Folkestone-Boulogne. (1) Daily evening passenger service from 10th June to 1st October, 1955. (2) Daily morning passenger service from 2nd July to 13th September,~ 1955, An irregular service v/as in force from 11th June until the comLiencement of the dail3^ service and '.Iso during the period 15th to 25th September, 1955, Special excursion and ”no-passport’* trips were also run to France during the Summer season. Usual cargo service was maintained to and from Calais and Boulogne. A total of 597,595 passengers passed through the port during the 3rear, and this figure shovied an increase of 68,404 compared with 1954 despite the fact that the port 7ias virtuall3/- at a standstill for over a fortnight because of the rail strike in Franca. The Folkestone-Boulogne services, onl37‘ operating between 10th June and 1st October, 1955, carried nearly three-fifths of the travellers of whom only a small number, in comparison, were day excursionists. The gross figures for the past five 37-ears are:- 1951. 1958 1955. 1954. 1955. Inwards Outvjards 285,782 251,405 260,975 237,682 224,526 219,565 277,388 251,803 310,646 286,949 Total 537,187 498,597 443,889 529,191 597,595 Further increase in the nuiuber of aliens arriving - 11,299 more than during 1954, 1,159 more sliens medicall37- exareined.