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13
Edmonton Urban District.
REPORT
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health
For the YEAR 1916.
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 retire
annually. It is represented on the Middlesex County Council by three
members : Councillors Cornish, Green 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. During the past two years there has been a
great rush to munition works, old and new, in this area; many of the workers
have taken houses or apartments in Edmonton, so as to be near their work.
Therefore over-crowding is common.
ALLOTMENTS.
In April the Parks Committee recommended that a new regulation be
passed, that in new tenancies allotments must be used for domestic purposes
only, and not for trade purposes, but this was defeated in Council.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners agreed to let for seven years, land north
and south of Chalfont Road. The Council entered into possession of the north
part on September 29th. My colleague the Architect set this out into 99
plots, from 10 to 24 poles each.