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Clearance Areas.
At the year end the inhabitants of the ten Clearance Areas
referred to in the last Report had been re-housed and the properties,
with few exceptions, demolished.
More delay was experienced in connection with the Tidal
Basin No. 1 Compulsory Purchase Order. The Council duly
made a Compulsory Purchase Order which was submitted to the
Ministry for confirmation. Objections were then made on behalf
of certain owners that the Forms of Notice stating what facts
were alleged as the principal grounds for being satisfied that the
buildings were unfit for human habitation were insufficient. An
application on their behalf was made to the High Court early in
September for a Rule prohibiting the Minister from holding the
Inquiry, but the action had not been decided at the end of the
year. The whole of the Council's slum clearance schemes have
been held up in consequence.

In the case of the Cam Road Area the Council made a Compulsory
Purchase Order and proposed to utilise the site, together
with adjoining land already in the possession of the Council, for
purposes of re-housing the occupants of the four areas.
The Minister postponed the Inquiry in respect of these areas
pending the result of the action in the case of Tidal Basin No. 1.
SPECIAL REPORTS
ISSUED BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
(1) Report on Ministry of Health Maternity and Child Welfare
Scheme Suggested Improvements.
In accordance with instructions issued by the Maternity and
child Welfare Committee on the 11th June, I herewith submit a
report upon the improvements suggested to the Maternity and
child Welfare Scheme by the Ministry of Health following the
recent visit of their officers. I will take the letter from the
-eeretary of the Minister of Health and deal with his suggestions
seriatim:-
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