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To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District Council
of Dagenham.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my report on the health and sanitary conditions
of the district for the year 1928.
The growth of the L.C.C. Becontree Housing Estate continued
with great rapidity, an additional 4,000 houses having
been erected, making the total number in this district 13,650.
This was the year of greatest expansion of the estate in
the Urban District, in which the full development should be
reached within a few months.
To cope with the needs of the increasing population a
number of new Infant Welfare Centres and Ante-natal Clinics
have been opened. It is hoped that in the near future there will
be erected two Combined Treatment Centres which will also
be available for the services provided by the Essex County
Council.
The Council has been alive to the needs of the district
and through the Dagenham Act will secure for the inhabitants
the necessary land for Parks and Open Spaces; also land for
housing sites and Cemeteries.
Consideration is also being given to new methods of treatment
of the sewage and improvements in the disposal of
house refuse.
The accommodation at the Isolation Hospital is being
extended, and it is anticipated that there will be a new large
• General Hospital available in the neighbourhood, with probably
a local central Out-Patients Department in this area.
In the report an attempt has again been made to allocate
the population to the various age groups. These results confirm
the findings of last year's analysis shewing again a paucity
of persons over 45 in the Estate houses and a marked