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9
EDMONTON URBAN DISTRICT.
REPORT .
of the
Medical Officer of Health
For the YEAR 1919.
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 should
retire annually. The elections were suspended during the war, since the last
one in 1915, but revived in 1919. To fill vacancies', Messrs. George Rowe,
E. T. Rhymer, W. F. Middleton and Mrs. Norman Benjafield had been coopted
It is represented on the Middlesex County Council by three members:
Councillors Cornish, Cull 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.
The Representation of the People Act, 1918, made Edmonton a Parliamentary
Borough, with one member of its own, although the population of
191-1 was estimated to be a little less than 70,000, viz., 68,203 (excluding
refugees and military).
The County Medical Officer's Report for 1918 was received in March, 1920.
Distress Committee.—In April, four members were appointed to fill
vacancies, and five persons (including at least one woman) from the general
public, and in May, eight from the Board of Guardians.
Rates.—In September the Council agreed to the proposal of the Guardians
for combining the collection of the Poor and District Rate, and in December
an agreement was arrived at which takes effect from April 1st, 1920.
Hospitals.—On September 23rd the Council passed this resolution:—
" The time is more than ripe for the taking over of the hospitals by the
"State (at present supported by voluntary aid). We contend that these