[Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Tyne Port Health Authority.

  • Tyne Port Health Authority
Date:
1967
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Credit: [Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Tyne Port Health Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION XI—MEASURES TAKEN AGAINST SHIPS INFECTED WITH OR SUSPECTED OF PLAQUE Plague is a serious infectious disease and is one of the six inter¬ nationally recognised “quarantinable diseases”. It is primarily a disease of rodents and may be transmitted to man, in the bubonic form, by the bite of an infected rat flea. It is essential, therefore, that all vessels should be kept as free from rats as possible; the procedure for doing this is described in Section XII. This matter is universally recognised to be of such importance that all deep sea vessels must comply with regulations which require them to have a valid Deratting or Deratting Exemption Certificate (See Table F). During the year there were no cases, nor suspected cases of plague in ships arriving in the river Tyne, and all bacteriological tests on rats proved negative.
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