[Report 1947] / Port Medical Officer of Health, Bristol Port Health Authority.

  • Bristol (England). Port Health Authority.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Port Medical Officer of Health, Bristol Port Health Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PORT HEALTH REGULATIONS, 1933 and 1945 Declarations of Health™. Under a local arrangement with the Pilotage Board, Declaration of Health forms are handed to the Master by the Channel pilot in the Barry Roads* In most cases, ihese forms are completed for delivery to the port health inspector boarding the vessels on arrival. '*Boarding of vessels on arrival, notification and mooring. All vessels, coastwise or from foreign, are boarded at the locks on arrival by the port health inspector on tidal watch. All vessels from foreign, and all vessels reporting sickness which arrive from foreign via a coastal port are boarded by the medical officer. Infected'’ or ’’Suspected ships are boarded by the medical officer and port health inspector at Walton Bay from a tug chartered for this purpose. Arrangements exist for the notification to the Authority of inward vessels requiring special attention (wireless messages, land signal stations, information from pilots, customs officers, etc). Wireless messages, giving the name of the ship and the expected time of arrival, are relayed to Portelth, Bristol, if there is any circumstance on board requiring the attention of the medical officer* The messages are forwarded from the Central Health Clinic to the port medical officer and the senior port inspector for appropriate action. Visual signals for transmission to the port medical officer may also be directed to the land signal station at Walton Bay. In addition, masters of foreign-going ships approaching the port are required to hoist whichever of the quarantine signals is appropriate as set out in the 1931 International Code of Signals for visual signals. Mooring stations, designated under Article 10 are as follows:- Inner Avonmouth • •• (a) Royal Edward Dock - North Wall (b) Old Dock - Dolphin Buoy. Bris tol •.. • • • Railway Wharf. portishead ••• • • > No. 1. Shed. Outer Avonmouth, Bristol and portishead Docks - Walton Bay# There are no standing exemptions from the provisions of Article 14 at this port for the reasons indicated in section 2 above. All vessels referred to in Article 16 wore boarded at the time of arrival by the port medical officer and the port health inspector and only one case of unauthorised boarding was dealt with throughout the year. A stern warning was issued on this occasion and no further trouble was experienced with the firm concerned. Boarding for reasons of urgency may be permitted by the medical officer under such conditions as may be imposed by him, but in no case is an individual, so authorised, allowed to leave a vessel until it is free from control under the Regulations#