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15
EDMONTON URBAN DISTRICT.
REPORT
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health
For the YEAR 1915.
RECENT HISTORY.
The district was divided into three Wards—Church Street, Fore Street
and Bury Street—by an order of the Middlesex County Council in 1903, and is
controlled by an Urban District Council of 27 members, nine of whom retire
annually. It is represented on the Middlesex County Council by three
members: Councillors Cornish, Green and Barrass.
The population is almost entirely industrial, and a large proportion of
the workers travel daily by train and tram to their employment in the City and
other parts of London. During the year there has been a great rush to
munition works, old and new, in this area ; many of the workers have taken
houses or apartments in Edmonton, so as to be near their work.
On November 23rd the Standing Order 39 was altered, and the power of
the Sanitary Committee to act on an emergency, such as an outbreak of small
pox, was withdrawn. This is a retrograde step.
THE DISTRESS COMMITTEE.
The rainfall stopped the clearance of Pymmes Park lake by the unemployed
for two or three weeks at the turnover of 1914-1915; there were 107 men at
work. On the 5th March the work was completed, after delay by stress of
weather and lack of workers. £500 was spent on this work, of which the
Government found /400.
Work on the improvement of Silver Street was paid for out of £1240, the
first instalment of the Road Board's contribution; but after February, as the
Local Government Board were not prepared to contribute £1500 because
employment was now plentiful, the work here was dropped.
On the 23rd February the Distress Committee's precept of £100 was
granted, and on 23rd November a precept for £50.