Reports and papers on the Port and riparian sanitary survey of England and Wales, 1893-94 / with an introduction by the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board.
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Reports and papers on the Port and riparian sanitary survey of England and Wales, 1893-94 / with an introduction by the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![0. Action as to M-'ater Supply of Vessels from Infected Ports:— Drinking-water will be ordered to be pumped out before entering the dock, tanks cleansed and lime Avashed, and fresh water supplied. p. Action as to Bilges of Vessels from Infected Ports :— Bilges will be ordered to be pumped out before entering the dock and cleansed with carbolic acid solution. Fi7ial Conference with the Workington Port Sanitary Authority was held on September 22nd, 1893, when formal recommendations were made with regard to the following matters :— 1. The necessity for the regular and thorough inspection of vessels entering the port, and the advisability in this connexion of appointing an additional Inspector of Nuisances at Harrington. 2. The provision of increased hospital accommodation. - 3, The provision of proper means for the conveyance by water of {a) the inspecting oflScers of the Authority, and (b) the sick. 4. The adoption of the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889. 5. The steps to be taken beforehand to secure, in the event of British ports becoming infected by cholera, the medical inspection of vessels entering the port coastwise as well as from foreign. The Port Sanitary Authority was also advised by the Inspector to make arransements beforehand for the burial of the cholera dead. Action taken by the Port Sanitary Authority since Inspection. In his Annual Eeport for the year 1893 the Port Medical Officer of Health refers to the Port Sanitary Authority as being, at the time of writing (January 1894), engaged in adding to the cholera hospital a kitchen fitted with a cooking stove, stoves for warming the existing wards and matron's room, two earth-closets, a both-room fitted with a movable bath, and a mortuarj. He also states that arrangements have been made with the Dock Authorities whereby officers can be furnished with a boat at any time to visit vessels and remove patients '* to the hospital without delay ; that arrangements have been made for the burial of the cholera dead; that tlie Authority has given notice to adopt the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889; and that in the event of cholera obtaining a footing in any British ports with which either Woi'kington or Harrington is in shipping communica- tion, vessels arriving coastwise-from such ports will receive prompt attention, adding that arrangements for inspection of such vessels by night as well as by day could be made immediately if necessary. The Infectious Disease (Notification) Act does not, however, appear yet to have been adopted by the Port Sanitary Authority. [September 1895.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20415485_0713.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
