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Town Hall,
Ealing, W.5.
June 22nd, 1927.
To the Ealing Town Council.
Mr. Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors.
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report for the year
1926. This report is not only later in being presented but is much
curtailed, due mainly to the fact that since the 1st October, when
the Borough was extended to include the Urban Districts of Hanwell
and Greenford, my staff and I have been almost overwhelmed
with the task of re-organisation and in meeting the pressing needs
of the included areas.
Maternity and Child Welfare work in Hanwell and Greenford
has been completely re-organised and arrangements have been made
for the opening of two new Maternity and Child Welfare Centres ;
work in connection with the medical inspection and treatment of
school children in Hanwell and Greenford has had to be taken
over from the Middlesex County Council and developed in consonance
with the scheme already in operation in Ealing and many pressing
sanitary matters in Greenford, which had accumulated on account
of the Greenford Council having insufficient staff, have had to be
undertaken.
To be strictly correct four reports should be submitted by me,
one for nine months for the Borough up to the 30th September,
one for Hanwell and one for Greenford for the same period, and one
for the whole Borough as extended from the 1st October for three
months. Four such reports would not only be expensive to print
but, because the statistics could not properly be compared with