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The Council are busily engaged in constructing open spaces and
children's playing fields. Bury Lodge Garden, although far from being
completed, is proving to be very attractive already, especially to the juvenile
population. The children's Boundary Playing Field and the Tatem
Recreation Ground will prove to be a haven for the youth of the District
from the large amount of traffic which speeds along the Cambridge Arterial
Road.
The Southern Flood Relief Scheme, which was begun last year, is now
on its way to completion; this has proved to be a difficult problem.
Commencement has been made on the Council's Galliard Road Estate
with the erection of 128 houses, and a similar effort is contemplated with
regard to 114 houses on the Slipes Estate; the latter houses for the relief
of overcrowded families under the Housing Survey.
I am indebted to the Engineer and Surveyor for the information which
he has supplied me.
SANITARY INSPECTION IN THE AREA.
Since my last report another Sanitary Inspector has been engaged,
with the result that the district is now divided into four areas, corresponding
roughly to the four Wards. Each Sanitary Inspector is also the Petroleum
Acts Inspector in his own district.
The Housing Inspector is constantly engaged for house-to-house
inspection and for making special investigations in the houses concerning
which complaints have been made in the Public Health Department.
The Woman Sanitary Inspector looks after out-workers' premises, the
sanitary condition of factories where women are employed, the supervision
of home-nursed cases of the notifiable infectious illnesses, and the investigation
of these latter diseases, including tuberculosis. She also assists the
Senior Sanitary Inspector in the supervision of the women's public
conveniences.
The Senior Sanitary Inspector supervises the work of the district and
is Inspector under the Canal Boats Acts.
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