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SECTION G
GENERAL PUBLIC HEALTH
GYPSIES AND DIDlCOITS
The problem of dealing with these itinerants presented itself again on
many occasions throughout the year. How despairing this problem has
become when the policy adopted to “get rid of them” from your own
district and move them on elsewhere is quite negative and offers no solution
at all. These people are some of the thousands which modern civilisation
has either forgotten or does not think as important as rockets or
sputniks. They are Society's human cast-offs, Society's flotsom.
There is only one solution. They must be absorbed into our Society
by being housed decently, so that the next generation of children will not
perpetuate this unfortunate way of life.
This Council has been willing to shoulder its share of the problem if
only other local Authorities would do the same.
SMOKE CONTROL AREAS
Smoke Control Area No. 2 came into operation on the 1st December.
1961, and by that time the necessary information had been submitted to
the Ministry of Housing and Local Government for the approval of Smoke
Control Area No. 3, which was intended to come into operation about the
middle of 1962.
Smoke Control Area No. 2 contained 73 acres and was bounded by
the High Street, Fairfield Road. Acacia Avenue. Horton Bridge Road and
the main line. Western Region, of British Railways. There were 468
domestic dwellings involved, 44 commercial properties and 27 industrial
premises. Of the 468 domestic dwellings involved, 155 are Council houses.
LONDON AIRPORT
The first stage in the transfer of industrial and non-industrial personnel
from old type premises on the North Terminal Area lo new premises
in the Central Terminal Area took place this year when part of the new
passenger building, handling longhaul flights, was opened. This has re-
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