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10.
SECTION C
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
Personal Note
This is the thirty-first and final contribution I shall have
to make to these Reports and it is not unnatural that any anticipated
pleasure of retirement should be tinged with an element of regret at
leaving the Borough of my adoption.
In my Report for the year 1954 I did comment on general public
health aspects of the quarter of a century I had then served this
authority and since that time perhaps the most outstanding development
has been the recommendations of the Royal Ccmission on Local
Government,, It is strange that this matter was very much to the fore
when I commenced my career in this Borough in 3.930 and to me, it would
be stranger still, if Chingford should ever lose its identity.
I shall leave for ray successor the programme which has been
approved in principle by the Council for the establishment of Smokeless
Zones throughout the Borough. This programme will, if completed in
accordance with the schedule, give a considerable amount of additional
work to the department over the next fifteen years. It will, in
addition, call for the expenditure of a considerable amount of public
money but in terras of environmental hygiene will be worthwhile.
I would mention again that the Refuse Disposal Works have now
reached the stage when soon urgent attention must be given either to
reconstruction or to the provision of a Loading Bay to enable refuse
to be transported outside the town for disposal. Much thought has
been given to this problem by the Public Health Committee and the
Council over the past eight years and although I have submitted many
schemes not one has yet come to fruition.
To Members of the Council, to the staff of the Public Health
Department and my colleagues in other Departments, I would wish every
success in their labours for the benefit of the residents of this
Borough.
JAMES F. ROGERS
Chief Public Health Inspector.
20th September. 1961.