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Later (May), two representatives, with the Clerk and Engineer, were appointed
to attend a conference in London, convened by the Borough of Ealing, which
would organise resistance to the absorption of their area, said to be desired by
the London County Council.
I cannot trace in the Council's Minutes any report from either set of
representatives.
In November, a report of the L.C.C., dated 10th October, 1919, was
presented to every Councillor, setting out the proposals of that Council regarding
the administration of Greater London.
POOR LAW INSTITUTIONS.
The Institution belonging to the Edmonton Board of Guardians, which
is in Fore Street, and covers an area of 22 acres, receives a certain proportion
of its inmates from this district, and such proportion is treated as part of our
population for statistical purposes. The large bulk of the inmates, however,
is derived from Tottenham, Southgate, Wood Green, Hornsey, Enfield,
Cheshunt (Herts), and Waltham Abbey (Essex), which places make up the
large Poor Law Union of Edmonton, and these inmates, of course, do not
enter into our vital statistics. Mr. B. Andrews is the master. In March,
1919, the estimated population of Edmonton Union was 494,739 ; rateable value
£2,576,846. Amongst a total of forty Guardians, Edmonton district proper
has only four representatives.
Dr. Gregorson has been acting as Medical Superintendent at the old Infirmary
(since April, 1915). The beds at the Workhouse and old Infirmary were
given up by the military in June. There are about 530 beds now for sick adult
paupers, and 38 cots for children. Those who had been boarded out in Metropolitan
and provincial workhouses are back again. Convalescents are sent
to Margate; tubercular cases to the Grosvenor Sanatorium, Ashford, Kent.
The new Infirmary and Nurses' Home became a military hospital in April,
1915: for particulars of its work see " The Foreword."
Millfield House has been occupied since January, 1917, by the Metropolitan
Asylums Board as a male epileptic colony. It accommodates 243
patients from other districts, therefore these people are excluded from our
Vital Statistics. Dr. Bebb is the visiting Medical Officer, and Mrs. S. Pallin
is the Matron.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Return of Staff.—On their return from war service in March, Messrs.
Nixon and Huckle, sanitary inspectors, were re-graded as to salary, and Mr.
J. P. Farrar was promoted from junior clerk to school medical clerk. The
first two posts were salaried at £150 per annum, rising by annual increments