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new building provides excellent accommodation, waiting-rooms,
clinics and, on the upper floor, additional wards and a nursery
for infants. The rooms are well-lighted and ventilated and provided
with central heating and fully equipped for the special purposes
for which they are intended.
The Borough Maternity Hospital was fully occupied during
the year, and the District Midwifery Service directed from the
Hospital continued its useful function with satisfactory results.
Housing activities were mainly confined to the repair of unfit
and seriously defective houses, and to the abatement of nuisances
under the Housing and Public Health Acts. Unfortunately, I
have again to refer to the serious and, in many cases, dangerous
overcrowding, owing to the shortage of housing accommodation
in certain of the lower wards of the Borough. It is to be hoped that
the new Housing Bill, which is expected to become law some time
in 1930, will provide for relief in the direction of adequate and
suitable housing accommodation for the poorer element of our
population at rents which they are capable of paying.
I have again gratefully to acknowledge the continued support
and assistance extended to me by the Mayor, the Chairmen of the
various Committees and Members of the Council. I have also
to express my thanks for the kind assistance of my Colleagues,
the Chief Officers of the Council; and to the Staff of the Public
Health Department my thanks are also due for their loyal and
devoted services.
G. Quin Lennane,
Medical Officer of Health.
Electric House,
204, Lavender Hill, S.W. 11.