[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Folkestone Port Health Authority.

Folkestone (England). Port Health Authority.

Date:: 1951

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Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Folkestone Port Health Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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II. - CHARACTER OF TRADE OF PORT. TABLE B. (a) Passenger Traffic during _1_951. No. of passengers. 1st Class 2nd Class Trans- migrants. Inwards Outwards 285,782 231,405 Nil. Nil. These figures show a total increase of 63,739 as compared with 1950'. (b) Cargo Traffic. Principal imports: Dates, nuts, fruit, vegetables, poultry, meat products, preserved fruit, fish, wines, horses and general cargo of miscellaneous character. Pr in c ip al exp or t s : Motor cars, horses, machinery and general merchandise. (c) Foreign. Ports from which vessels arrive. Calais, Boulogne and Flushing. MEDICAL HAPECTIOF OF ALIENS. For the greater part of the year Dr. R.F.H. McElligott with the assistance of Dr. Georgette Crosby; and Dr. J.H. Campbell, who was appointed on the 16th April, 1951, carried out these duties. Drs. J.M.B. Morwood and M.3. Watson both resigned their appointments as Assistant Medical Inspectors on the 1st May, 1951. Compared with 1950 Jshere has been an increase of 44.2f0 in the number of aliens examined. For the first eight months of the year approximate!y 650 exam- inations were carried out each month, but from September onwards this number had risen to 1,300 a month - these were mostly Italians to work in the coal mines, brickworks, tinplate works and for the British Railways. Owing to the large numbers arriving at one time it often became necessary for two and sometimes three Mediaal Inspectors and a corresponding number of Nurse-attendants to be present; 100-150 examinations at one session were common, the highest number being 291.