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Public Health Department,
43, White Horse Street,
Stepney, London, E.
28th May, 1936.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my annual report upon the health and
sanitary conditions of the Borough of Stepney for 1935, this being my third
Annual Report. The year has been a momentous and busy one, many
important changes in staff having taken place, many new important
activities having been started, and several very important new Acts having
come into force.
I discuss the important changes in staff on page 10 and at this
juncture I wish to refer only to the splendid uphill work of the Food
Section in its first year and to my very sincere regret at the premature
retirement of Sanitary Inspectors Shepherd, Trimming, Harris and Flint.
The important new activities were, the completion and opening
of the new Tuberculosis Dispensary, the modernisation of the Mortuary
by the installation of a refrigeration plant and by the provision of two
new post-mortem tables, the establishment of a Bug eradication section
under the charge of a specialist Sanitary Inspector, the notification of
Measles in children of 5 years of age and under, the provision of Home
Helps and of the services of certified midwives as maternity nurses, and
the establishment of a new ante-natal clinic in Whitechapel. I refer to
each of these new activities elsewhere in this report.
The important new acts were the Housing Act 1935 and the Shops
Act 1934. The Housing Act 1935 was particularly important in that it
led to the survey of the Borough for the purpose of discovering the
amount of overcrowding. I refer to this Survey in detail elsewhere
and I also give the summary of the results.
The Public Health Department helped in the Silver Jubilee and Local
Government Centenary Celebrations from the 7th to 15th May by organising
2 stalls of Public Health and Maternity and Child Welfare Exhibits and by
arranging a Toddlers' Competition.
A Health Week and Exhibition was held during the week 28th October
to 2nd November—an account is given elsewhere in this report.