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would be made in default of voluntary action. Subsequently
ten houses and two workshops were built upon
the site.
BRADY STREET UNHEALTHY AREA.
I regret to be unable to report any further progress
in the scheme for the clearance of this unhealthy area.
Such measures as are possible under the provisions of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, have been taken
from time to time, and a few houses have been closed
and demolished by the owners. It is a public scandal
that the old, dilapidated and unhealthy houses on this
area should continue to be inhabited, but the Treasury
is firm in its refusal to allow any expenditure of public
money to effect the clearance of the site during the continuance
of the war.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE SCHEME.
My report for 1915 contains a full exposition of my
views upon this subject. On July 6th the Public Health
Committee presented a full report to the Council, strongly
supporting my suggestions. The concluding paragraphs
of the report are as follows : —
The Town Clerk, the Medical Officer of Health, and
the Chief Sanitary Inspector have reported to us upon
the subject of a scheme for the Borough, and the Town
Clerk also has been in correspondence with the Local
Government Board, particularly as to the grant to be
made by the Board in respect of the cost of this work,
in regard to which he received an assurance that a grant
equivalent in any year to one half the salaries of health
visitors and of any other approved expenditure during