[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London].

  • London (England). Port Health Committee.
Date:
1903
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    6 Table A. SUMMARY OF INSPECTIONS, &c. 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. Mean Annual No. for the 5 years. Total No. for 1902. Medical Inspection:— ' No. of Vessels Medically Inspected— (a) Gravesend 977 1,096 1,276 1,256 1,080 1,137.0 1,668 (b) Sheerness 315 265 263 243 212 259.6 244 Sanitary Inspection:— No. of visits of Inspection - 30,228 31,658 33,580 30,805 32,075 31,669.2 33,606 No. of Nuisances reported and dealt with (including Structural Alterations) 644 1,007 547 509 832 707.8 1,187 No. of Nuisances abated (including Structural Alterations carried out) - 667 1,035 666 513 782 732.6 743 Vessels cleaned - 1,120 1,599 2,557 2,386 2,497 2,031.8 2,934 No. of Statutory Notices issued - 23 22 50 48 121 52.8 285 No. of cases in which Proceedings were taken - — 34 8 22 11 15.0 12 No. of Canal Boats Inspected 597 595 781 655 528 631.2 894 No. of Seizures of Unsound Food - 129 190 432 403 458 322.4 447 This Report being the first of a new series, I think it well to recapitulate, for the purposes of record, a few facts in relation to some of the physical features of the Port. This will be instructive, as showing the extensive field of operations covered by your Officers. The Port of London, extending as it does from Teddington Lock to a line drawn from Havengore Creek in Essex to Warden Point in Kent, traverses five Counties (including the administrative County of London) and eighty-one Parishes. It covers a distance on the River of about 76 miles, and includes besides, 22 creeks with a total navigable mileage of about 45 miles. Of this about 31 miles are visited daily, giving a distance covered by the launches out and home of about 62.4 miles. The portions which are omitted from daily visits, but which are visited periodically, are from London Bridge to Teddington, Lower Hope to outer limits of the Port, and the Nore to Coalmouth Creek in the Medway. The Docks are situated at intervals from London Bridge to Galleons Reach, a distance of about ten miles, and at Tilbury. These docks have a total water area of 631 acres, or nearly one square mile, with a total length of quayage of 25.73 statute miles. It will thus be seen that the