[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Grimsby Port Health Authority.

  • Great Grimsby (England). Port Health Authority.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Grimsby Port Health Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IV. Port Health Regulations, 1933 and 1945. The information under these Regulations is as described in inv Annual Report for 1946, with the exception of the table in paragraph 10 relating to the particulars of the examination and treatment of seamen at the Grimsby Venereal Disease Clinic, Queen Street. The following table gives details of the work carried out during the year 1949 :— British Seamen Foreign Seamen Total Found to be suffering with :— (a) Syphilis 18 67 85 (b) Gonorrhoea 34 137 171 (c) Chancroid — — — Found not to be suffering from V.D. 53 85 138 Total number of patients examined .. 105 289 394 Total number of attendances .. 158 567 725 Form V. 44(R) (Seamen’s Transfer Card) was issued to all seamen in cases where continued treatment, tests, or observation was considered necessary. Information about the location of the Clinic in Queen Street was placed on board vessels from other ports by the inspectors in the course of their duties. Table C. Cases of Infectious Sickness landed from Vessels. Number of cases during Average No. the year Number of of cases for Disease. vessels concerned previous Passengers. Crew. 5 years. Chicken Pox 1 1 0.2 Scabies 1 1 2.6 Table D. Cases of Infectious Sickness occurring on Vessels during the voyage hut disposed of prior to arrival. NIL. During the year, no case of Plague, Cholera, Yellow Fever, Smallpox or Typhus occurred, and no plague infected rats were discovered. Responsibility for the provision of hospital accommodation for cases of infectious disease from ships and of sea-borne smallpox passed on the appointed day (5th July, 1948) of the National Health Service Act, 1946, from the Grimsby Corporation to the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board, acting through the agency of the Grimsby Hospitals Management Committee.
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