[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Weymouth Port Health Authority.

  • Weymouth (Dorset, England). Port Health Authority.
Date:
1962
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Credit: [Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Weymouth Port Health Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -2- S5CTI0N 111 Cont> Principal Ports from v;hich Ships Arrived^ Azores, Carlshamn, Dunkirk, Fredriksun^ vironingen, Gronvik, Hamina, Helsinki, Kotka, Landerneau, Las Palmas, Lisbon, Rotterdam, Tamara, Trinidad, Vigo, Vlaadingen, Ymuiden. SSCTI..N iV'- INLilND BARGE TRAFFIC. ' • , • NIL SLCTICN V^- V/ATER SUPPLY NO change. •SECTICN VI - PUBLIC HEALTH (SHIPS REGULATIONS), 19^2. .Ijis-;t, of Infected Areas (Regulation Information, more up to date than hitherto, is now received each week direct from the V/orld Health Organisation at Geneva., Fresh lists giving apx)ropriate extracts from this W.H.O. Weekly Epidemiplogical Record are now being sent each week to (a) Port Health Inspector H.H. Customs, Weymouth and (c) H.M. Customs, Portland. SECTION.yi (2) -.(5) - NO CH/iNGE ^ - SECTION Vll - SMALLPOX 1. 2. Hospital to which Smallpox Cases are sent from the District Weyhill Hospital, Andover, Hants, Tel. No. V/eyhill 214. Arrangements for transport of such cases to that Hospital. Dorset County Council Ainbulance Service from The Weymouth Ambulance Depot, Tel. No. Wey. 2661 (Dorset County Control - Dorchester I76I.) .. Each Ambulance Driver/Attendant at this The vaccinal state of the V/e5’‘mouth Corporation by annual re-vaccination. Depot is re-vaccinated every year* disinfector staff is also maintained 3. Names of Smallpox Consultants Available. Dr. E.J. Gordon Wallace - V/eyrnouth. Dr. A.F. Turner - V/eymouth. Dr. C. Hollins - Dorchester. Facilities for laboratory diagnosis of Smallpox. Suspected material is sent to Virus Reference Laboratory, Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale, London, N.V/.9* Tel. No. Colindale 604l. Smallpox Vaccination. 38 member£3 of the crew of the S.S. St. Patrick were vaccinated against smallpox before leaving for Cardiff on tlio 17th January, I962.