A report on the hygienic condition of the mercantile marine in the Port of London / by Harry Leach.

  • Leach, Harry.
Date:
1871
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Credit: A report on the hygienic condition of the mercantile marine in the Port of London / by Harry Leach. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    EEPOET ON THE HYGIENIC CONDITION OF THE MERCANTILE MARINE IN THE PORT OF LONDON. Four years have now elapsed since I took occasion to publish a Report on the Hygienic Condition of the Mercantile Marine, and the preventible diseases of merchant seamen. The investigations upon which this Report was based were instituted on account of the progressive decadence, for some years past, both in the number and quality of British seamen annually re- quired to man the ships of the United Kingdom; and it was plainly shown that this decadence arose more from causes chiefly preventible, and from causes, too, that tarnish the reputation of the British nation as a great commercial community. It is not too much to say that this and other journalistic utterances, empha- sised by recorded facts of a most conspicuous descrip- don, at length roused the active attention of the Government, and resulted in a measure commonly called the ‘ Duke of Richmond’s Act,’ or, more cor- rectly, the ‘Merchant Shipping Act of 1867.’ This Act was much curtailed as to the provisions embodied