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This inadequacy is associated with overcrowding,
which is detrimental not only to the health of the inmates,
but also to the sanitary state of the houses in which they live.
Until sufficient houses are provided for the needs of this
Borough it will always be a difficult problem to improve
permanently the sanitary state of existing houses. As in
previous years, much attention has been paid during the year
to the supervision of food supplies.
I have again to express my appreciation of the work of the
staff of the Health Department and to thank the members
of the Public Health and Housing and Maternity and Child
Welfare Committees for their support and sympathetic
consideration which they have given to me, and for their
keen attention to the problems which it has been my duty to
lay before them during the year.
I am,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN MACMILLAN.