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Section III. of the report deals with Sanitary Administration. The
statistics indicate that constant attention is devoted to the improvement
of housing accommodation in the Borough. Although to less extent
than in other Metropolitan Boroughs, this side of the work of the department
is frequently hampered by the inadequate number of houses available.
Since the War your Housing Committee has been engaged in
examining possible sites which might be utilised for Housing Schemes—
a task rendered difficult by the fact that Chelsea is already largely built
up. It is gratifying to record that at the close of the year the new
buildings in King's Road, erected by the Borough Council, in conjunction
with the Guinness Trust, were completed. In addition, further
progress was made in connection with the Council's Improvement Scheme
for the World's End Passage Area. The task of clearing this site and the
construction of new buildings thereon is being actively proceeded with
by the Chelsea Housing Improvement Society, Limited, in conjunction
with the Borough Council. Progress was also made in connection with
the Manor Street Housing Scheme.
As in former years, much attention has been given to the supervision
of food supplies.
I have again to express my appreciation of the work of the staff of
the Public Health Department. With deep regret I have to record the
death from meningitis following empyema, on February 4th, 1930,
of Mr. J. C. Goodwin, Sanitary Inspector. Mr. Goodwin joined the staff
in 1926 and had discharged his duties faithfully and well. He was
invariably courteous and obliging, and whole-heartedly devoted to his
work. I should like to thank the members of the Public Health, Maternity,
Child Welfare, and other Committees for the support and sympathetic
consideration which they have extended to me, and for their keen attention
to the problems which it has been my duty to lay before them.
Copies of this report have been transmitted to the Ministry of Health,
the Home Office and the London County Council, in accordance with
statutory requirements.
I am,
Madam Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
w. h. l. McCarthy.