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.
718/822 page 654
![HOLME CULTRAM URBAN RIPARTAN DISTRICT. [Carlisle Customs Port (part of).] Inspector : Mr. T. W. Thompson. Date of Inspeciion: March 2'ith, 1893. This Riparian District (Silloth) is under the jurisdiction of the Holme Cultram Urban Sanitary Authority. The coastline of the district extends from Cross Beck on the south to j4ngerton on the north. Shipiying Trade: — FoEEiGN.—Mediterranean and Black Sea, Hamburg, Antwerp, the Baltic, North and South America, Spain. Imports.—Grain from the MediteiTanean and North America; timber from Canada and the Baltic ; sulphur ore from Spain; phosphate from Hamburg and Antwerp. No rags, passengers, immigrants, or trans- migrants. Exports.—None. Coastwise.—Liverpool (daily), Dublin, Belfast, Newry, Welsh ports, Glasgow. Imports.—General cargoes (American produce); passengers from Liverpool and Dublin; slates from Wales. Exports.—Coal, manure. Amount of Shipping Inwabds duking Three Teahs, 1890-91-92. Class of Vessels. 1890. 1891. 1892. Number. Tonnage. Number. Tonnage. Number. Tonnage. f Steamers Foreign ■< Siiiling (.Fishing Total Foreign C Steamers Coastwise< Suiling (.Fishing Tot;il Coastwise - 8 13 7,214 5,599 10 G 7,527 3,917 9 16 9,729 7,560 21 12,813 16 11,444 25 17,289 627 137 83,215 7,613 629 76 86,413 5,487 562 100 88,459 7,283 664 00,828 605 91,900 668 96,747 There are 11 small fishing boats on the register, but they never go outside the port. Size from two to four tons. Goods are conveyed from the district by the North British Railway. GMef Facts reported as regards Administration.—The Urban Medical Officer of Health (Charles Macculloch, L.F.P.S.Glasg.*) is conversant with the cholera orders, and apparently prepared to carry them out. The Urban Inspector of Nuisances (Thomas Beckton) had not prior to the inspection carried out any inspection of vessels under the Public Health Acts. The Urban Sanitary Authority has not erected any isolation hospital. _ It possesses a wooden hut, which it is proposed to erect on a convenient site, if necessary. No ambulance, no disinfecting apparatus, and no mortuai-y Imve been provided. The Sanitary Authority has not adopted the Infectious Disease (Notiiication) Act, 1889, nor has it drawn .up any regulations under section 125 of the Public Health Act, 1875. * Since deceased. See footnol e, next page.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20415485_0718.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
