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I have again to express my appreciation of the work of the staff of
the Public Health Department.
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,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
w. h. l. McCarthy,
Medical Officer of Health.
CONTROL OF VERMIN. During the year a scheme
was submitted and approved by the council
as to the provision of temporary accommodation
for Chelsea residents whilst their
flats were being treated for the extermination
of vermin.This temporary accommodation
embodied the Use of the ground floor flat at
one of the Council's properties,the furnishin,
of the flat for a family of at least seven
persons,also the provision of bed linen,
crockery and cooking utensils. The flat
was opened in August andv/Vf persons v/ere
accommodated up to the end of the year.
WAR-TIME NURSERY. During the year the
Ministry of Health and the Ministry of
Labour and National Service v/ere approached
as to the necessity for a War-time nursery
to be opened in uhelsea. In November,the
hinistry sanctioned the proposal for a
War-time Nursery at the former Chelsea Day
Nursery premises. The accommodation to
provide for 45 children. Adaptions v/ere
in progress at the end of the year and
equipment has been requisitioned on the
Ministry of Health's Central Stores. It is
expected that the Nursery will be opened in
March,1943.