Cholera precautions for 1893.

  • Port of London Sanitary Committee.
Date:
1893
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    Reprinted from the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette'' of the 17th December, 1892, By Order of the Port of London Sanitary Committee. CHOLERA PRECAUTIONS FOR 1893. CONFERENCE OF PORT MEDICAL OFFICERS. A Conference of Port Medical Officers of Health was held on Saturday, the 17th December, 1892, at the Mansion House, under the Presidency of the Lord Mayor, to consider the subject of Cholera Precautions. The following Port Medical Officers of Health attended :—Drs. W. Collingridge, London ; H. E. Armstrong, Newcastle-on- Tyne ; J. 0. Wood, Sunderland ; E. Davies, Swansea ; F. W. Williams, Plymouth ; G. Griffith, Milford Haven ; W. Watson, Rochester ; J. D. Fausset, Fleetwood ; T. G. Styan, Ramsgate; G. Brown, Colchester ; D. S. Davies, J. C. Heaven, and F. Tratman (Assistants), Bristol; J. Bately, Great Yarmouth ; W. A. S. Wynne, Lowestoft; R. P. Simpson, Weymouth and Portland ; H. Gurney, Harwich ; J. Camp- bell, Gloucester ; E. Walford, Cardiff; G. S. EUiston, Ipswich ; F. C. H. Piggot, Teignmouth ; A. W. Harris, Southampton; H. A. Lawton, Poole ; R. Henslowe- Wellington, Sutton Bridge, Wisbech ; -J. W. Mason, Hull ; L, A. Malcomson, Middles- brough ; C. J. Evers, Faversham ; E. P. King, Chepstow; and W. Clegg, Boston. The Lord Mayor said he was proud to meet at the Mansion House gentlemen who had so much in their hands the health of the people. In the Port of London th^y had endeavoured during the late scourge to keep clear from contagion, and in that he thought they had perfectly succeeded. What they had to do now was to prepare ior the future. He was quite sure that gentlemen coming from other ports were equally energetic, and he congratulated them on coming there into Conference in order that they might arrange . matters among themselves so as to carry on the work in an intelligent and uniform manner. He might, perhaps, at the same time, be permitted to say that whilst they should be very careful to prevent disease entering our ports, they should at the same time remember that it was necessary to exercise their powers with gentleness and without unnecessary severity ; otherwise they might not only defeat th^ir own objects, but bring down upon themselves perhaps the ill feeling of a very large number of the population. Questions had been raised on this matter, and he considered it his duty, as Lord Mayor of the City of London, to recommend to all those who wt-re placed in the position of Port Medical Officers that, while they were carrying out tlieir duties, they should exercise them without unnecessary severity. Dr. Collingridge, on behalf of the Conference, expressed the very great pleasure and satisfaction the Port Medical Officers had at being received by his Loiu-hip. It was felt, and naturally felt, by all Port Medical Officei*s that the meeting at the Mansion House would carry with it much weight and prestige, and more ]>articularly when presided over by the Lord Mayor, not only as Chief Magistrate of the City, but as no mean authority on sanitary matters. The interest his Lordship had alwa^'s taken in sanitary matters was the primary reason in asking him to accept a piisition, for which they were very grateful to him. The Lord Mayor having to preside at the Mansion House Police ('ourt, asked the Conference to appoint a Chairman in his absence, and Dr. Collingridge was unanimously chosen to take the Chair.