[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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    A summary of attendances by the Medical Inspectors is as follows:- •■Number of separate occasions when - • (a) 1 Medical Inspector attended ... 461) (b) 2 Medical Inspectors ... 72) . 543 (c) 3 5? ” TJ ... 10) occasions. Prior information is usually received from the Ministry of Labour, of the number of immigrants'expected to arrive by each boat, and the necessary arrangements are 'made for sufficient medical and nursing staff to be available; even so there are often last minute alterations, e.g. aliens being unavoidably delayed, missing their boat and arriving by another .service, boats being diverted to Dover because of rough .weather, etc. ’ Rooms are available on the train departure platform on the quay, but the usual practice of carrying out the medical examinations in cabins on board passenger ships has been continued. A trained Nurse-Attendant is present during the inspection of females. The Annual Return by the Medical Inspector of Aliens is shown on page 6. An analysis of aliens permitted to land -(unconditionally and conditionally) during 1950 is as follows Total 1. Returning:-residents .... A • • # • • • • • • • • • 3,155 2. Aliens in. transit • • • • • • • • ♦ • • i - 3,2.68 3. Pleasure visitors (not more than 6 months) • • • 57,425 4. Business visitors (not more than 6 months) §#• 4,089 5. Diplomats, etc • • • • • • • • • • • • 408 6. 8eamen ... ... ... • • • • • • • • • * * * 5 7. Seamen under contract ... • • • • • • • • • ** * 250 8. Ministry of Labour p (a) Males ... (b) Females ... (c) Children ... 9. Other Aliens: (a) Males ... (b) Females ... (c) Children ... rrnits: 410 9) 7381) 11,410 20 ) 4227) 2328) 6,914 359) 65,924 Total: