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I mention these circumstances because they, in a large
measure, account for the entire absence of any public-spirited
enterprises, as shown in voluntary agencies, health workers and
the like.
My predecessor, Dr. Peskett, who was Medical Officer of
Health for twenty years, saw the district grow, as pointed out
in his Annual Report for 1906, from one with a population of
38,000 to one with a population of 108,000, and the fact that this
town has risen on ground that was originally fields and market
gardens accounts for the fact that there are practically no slums,
back-to-back houses, crowded courts and the like, but good wide
roads and houses built to modern bye-laws standards.
BOUNDARIES.
On the north, Ley ton is bounded by the Urban district of
Walthamstow, on the south by Stratford (County Borough of
West Ham), on the east by the Urban District of Wanstead, and
on the west by the London Borough of Hackney.
GEOLOGY.
The soil is composed of valley gravel, except in the neighbourhood
of the River Lee, and the Marshes of Hackney and Leyton,
where it is alluvial in character.