View report page

3
receive most valuable assistance from the Chelsea Health Society, and
cannot speak too highly of the efficiency of the Society's work. Many
desirable extensions and improvements in Maternity and Child Welfare
services have been rendered possible by the provision of the " Violet
Melchett Infant Welfare Centre "—the generous gift of the late Lord
Melchett.
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 largely
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. During the year I submitted a formal representation
in regard to an area in Manor Street where the existing houses are
for the most part old and worn out. It is gratifying to record that
your Council has decided to deal with the site as one to be cleared
and to erect new houses for the working-classes thereon.
As in former years, much attention has been devoted to the supervision
of food supplies.
I have again to express my appreciation of the work of the staff of
the Public Health Department. I should also 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,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
w. h. l. McCarthy.