A dead man was among 35 immigrants found in a container at Tilbury Docks after crew were alerted by "banging and screaming".
Police have launched a "homicide" investigation after the man was discovered with 34 sick children and adults hiding in a container on a P&O ferry.
Police at the scene in Tilbury Docks At least seven of those treated at three different hospitals with "significant health problems" were children.
At a press conference at Tilbury Docks, Essex Chief Superintendent Trevor Roe said the man's death was being treated as a crime.
He described those found in the container as "victims" of a "people trafficking" crime and said they were found after crews heard "banging and screaming".
"Staff at the port very quickly breached the container and found the 35 people within," Mr Roe said.
"Unfortunately one person was deceased and therefore this has now become a homicide investigation," he added.
Seven ambulances were sent to the scene. Eighteen patients were taken to Basildon Hospital, nine to London Whitechapel Hospital and seven to Southend Hospital.
Some of the immigrants - believed to be of Indian origin - were suffering from severe dehydration and hypothermia.
Basildon Hospital is responding to a "major incident" Those taken to Basildon - 11 adults and seven children - have now been deemed medically fit to be discharged, the hospital said.
Police say they will be taken, along with the others, once recovered, to a detention centre in Tilbury Docks, under immigration laws.
The alarm was raised after the container arrived on a ship from Zeebrugge in Belgium and was being unloaded at 7.35am.
Natalie Hardy, from P&O Ferries, said the container was on board the Norstream, a commercial vessel.
The suspected immigrants were found at Tilbury Docks She said the ship was scheduled to leave Zeebrugge last night at 10pm and arrive at Tilbury today at 6am.
It was carrying 64 containers, 72 trailers and five lorries and drivers.
Ms Hardy said: "They (port authorities) found 35 clandestines on a container in the ferry.
"They had been in there overnight, because the ship was an overnight freight ferry.
"This morning when they went to unload containers there was a noise heard, a banging. One unfortunately was dead and others were taken to hospital."
A spokeswoman for Public Health England said it was not involved in the response to, investigation of or anything to do with the incident at Tilbury Docks.
She said: "If it was ebola, health care professionals are so alert at the moment to signs and symptoms that should there have been anyone who was showing symptoms we would have been notified immediately.
"I think we can be confident that we are not dealing with that."
Police are dealing with the incident alongside staff from Port of Tilbury, UK Border Force and the East of England Ambulance Service, the spokesman said.
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