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V
Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary
Condition of the City of Westminster.
19 2 8.
Mr. Mayor, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Annual Report for the year 1928.
This report is in accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of
Health submitted as an ordinary report. The fuller survey reports are
required at the end of each quinquennium.
The work of the department in connection with the circumstances
arising as a result of the Thames Flood in January was commented upon
in last year's report. That work continued throughout the year and has
called for extra effort from each member of the staff, whilst also entailing
the employment of additional assistance.
The improvement of the Millbank area which had been previously
mentioned was duly formulated in a scheme and submitted to Parliament
as an Improvement Bill in the spring of the present year. Royal Assent
was given to the measure in May. A report dealing with the sanitary
survey of the area and the proof of evidence of the Medical Officer of
Health have been submitted to the Ministry of Health as a special report.
Certain details relating to it and to the Millbank Housing Scheme are
given as part of an appendix to this report, together with a few illustrations.
In the appendix there are also set out certain details of the Ebury
Bridge Housing Scheme and the proposed new Tuberculosis Dispensary
and Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Reference should also be made to a new Maternity and Child Welfare
Centre which the Council proposes to erect for the northern area of the
City. The scheme will be fully discussed in next year's report. This
new centre will replace the present one at 9, Frith Street, Soho Square,
which was taken as a temporary expedient, and consists of shop premises.
The new centre will form part of large municipal premises containing
public baths and wash-houses, highways department depot, and rate
collector's offices, situated in Marshall Street and Dufours Place. The
whole building will be completed about the end of 1930.