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The Poplar Council recommended that representations to the proper authorities be made that
all motor cars should have elastic and resilient tyres and that the speed limit of heavy motor
cars (exceeding 6 tons) in the metropolis be reduced from 8 to 5 miles an hour.
The Bethnal Green Health Committee authorised the engagement of the services of District
Nurses in cases of Pneumonia, Influenza and Measles at a charge of 10do per visitcThe Public
Analyst reported that 16%of all articles analysed were adulterated, stating that evident scarcity
of supply and the high cost of food had„ after four years„ increased the proportion of adulteration
It was also reported to the Bethnal Green Council on the 3rd April that by Command of H.M.,
Queen Mary, the Mayor waited upon Her Majesty at Buckingham Palace on the 14th March and discussed
with her the housing and social conditions affect ing the inhabi tants of the Borough.The Queen
subsequently expressed a wish to view some of the houses and this took place on the 17th March
when Her Majesty visited premises in the Brady Street area and Digby Walk
Dr, Go Po Bate resigned after 44 years service as part- time Medical Officer of Health for
the Borough On the 18th September arrangements for the local celebration of the signing of the
Treaty of« .Peace were brought to a successful conclusion by the entertainment of 27,000 school
children of the Borough at Victori a Park, each child receiving a bun, a piece of fruit cake, an
apple or banana* a stick of sweetmeat and a drink of lemonade, the catering cost being £600«
In a prosecution in Stepney a carman was seen by a Police Inspector to take water from a
horse trough in Mile End Road and put it into milk churns in a van, Charged with maliciously
damaging milk and with adding water to milk entrusted to him for sale;, he was sentenced to three
months5 imprisonment, Prosecutions taken by the Food Control Committee included many against
licensees for refusing to serve whisky in the public bar although it was sold in the saloon bar.
Following adoption of the provisions of the Maternity and Child Welfare Act 1918 the Stepney
Council advertised for a Lady Assistant Medical Officer of Health at a salary of £400 per annumand
for four Health Visitors at £100 per annum plus War bonus The estimated net expenditure for
the year 1919 - 1920 for the Public Health Committee was £17,670, The Council recommended to the
Local Government Board that power be given to local authorities to ensure that no new premises
should be al lowed to be opened for the preparation and sale of human food until the Medical Officer
of Health certified that such premises were in a fit condition for the purpose for which it was
proposed to use them0 This Council also supported a proposal by the London County Council for the
making of an Order declaring the business of a SIaughterer o f Fowls to be an 6'offensive business''
LIVE BIRTHS
There were 3,760 live births registered in the borough during the year After correction for
place of. residence (inward transfers 121, outward transfers 1,269), the number allocated to the
borcugh was 2,612 comprising 1,319 boys and 1,293 girls* a decrease of 263 from 1968, giving a
crude birth rate of 13.88 per 1,000 population compared with 14.95 last year When adjusted by
the Registrar-General's area comparability factor for the borough, which makes allowances for
differences in the age and sex distribution of the population throughout the country, the rate is
12.77 compared with 16.3 (estimated) for England and Wales, a ratio of 0„78 to the national rate-
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