[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Tyne Port Health Authority.

  • Tyne Port Health Authority.
Date:
1940
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    Mill Darn, South Shields. January, 194-1. The Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Members of the Tyne Port'Health Authority. t \ \ t ! V J Gentlemen, I have the honour to present the Annual Report for the year, 1940, on the existing, conditions of the Tyne Port and of the work of your Officers during this period. ¥ar conditions continue to impose restrictions upon the information which it is advisable to include in this Report, and I have endeavoured therefore, to confine it to statements of a general nature relative to the work on which the Staff have been engaged. Merchant shipping conditions have, as usual, received great attention, and particular care has been exercised to effect improvement of conditions on board without undue delay to the shipping concerned. The health of crev/s has. been carefully supervised, and no case of major infectious disease has occurred. During the severe weather of the early months of the year, an increase in the number of respiratory diseases occurred, reaching among the coloured crew on board one vessel, the proportions of a slight epidemic. \ An increase in the number of cases of malaria occurring prior to arrival at Tyne was also noted. Two further members of the Staff have been, temporarily released to undertake other work of national Importance. Once again, I am pleased to give sincere tribute to the efficient and cheerful work of all Members of the Staff, and to the Members of the Committee for their interest, and I feel sure, that despite a certain amount of disorganisation and readjustment consequent to the war, with the same help, the woJfk will continue at it’s present satisfactory level. I am, Gentlemen, \ ' * r \ ' Your obedient Servant, T. L. J. Goxon.