Medical Attention at Clyde Anchorage
- Reference:GB 243 D-HE4/3/4/14
- Dates of Creation:1941 - 1943
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:3 files Typed document
Scope and Content
Includes: File 1 - report on a smallpox case on SS Ormonde; draft scheme of medical services for cases of non-infectious illness or accident on board merchant vessels (British and Foreign) at the Clyde Anchorages, January 1941; list of doctors who will attend cases of illness on board vessels at Clyde Anchorage from the Shipping Federation with fees chargeable etc, February 1941; list of infectious disease hospitals in Clyde Anchorage area, February 1941; further correspondence with the Shipping Federation on the administration of the medical attendance rota and doctors' payments; blank form of the information required on a case by the Port Medical Officer; correspondence concerning payment for treatment of Free French, September 1941; memorandum on the treatment of scabies, October 1941; summary of Clyde Anchorages Non-Infectious Illness and Accident Scheme, February 1942; memorandum on medical treatment to Netherlands seamen on the Clyde, May 1942
File 2 - correspondence on prescriptions given on board vessels, May 1942; Merchant Shipping Medical Scales Notice to Owners and Masters, May 1940; memorandum on hospital treatment at Southern General Hospital by A D Briggs, medical superintendent, September 1942; Department of Health for Scotland memorandum on Emergency Hospital Scheme and merchant seamen, December 1941; correspondence on the problem of doctors not being able to find ships or the ship not wanting a doctor, October 1942; table of number of cases admitted to each hospital by Port Medical Officer, December 1942; letter from A S M MacGregor to the Ministry of Health on whether the issues of treatment of mercantile marine should be considered by the Association of Port Health Authorities, October 1942; problem of keeping doctors on rota due to call-up and increased civilian population and proposal to add doctors to the staff, January 1943; Organisation for Seamen's Welfare in Great Britain, from the International Labour Review, April 1941; letter from Hutchison to MacGregor on the breakdown of communication over the care of merchant seamen in convoys, July 1943; draft memorandum on clinics for merchant seamen at Southern General Hospital, July 1943
File 3 - Association of Port Health Authorities report on the health and welfare of merchant seamen, June 1943; table of diseases broken down by age group; proposed scheme for medical services for Greenock dockers and dockers employed at the Clyde Anchorages; article by Hutchison on Incapacitating Sickness amongst Merchant Seamen for publication in The Lancet, September 1943; request for information on increased incidence of Vincent's disease of the gums [trench mouth], November 1943; review of Mersey Docks Medical Service, October 1943; statistical review of cases among American merchant seamen prepared for the US War Shipping Administration, November 1943; and paper on the history and administration of the Clyde Anchorages Medical Service.
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