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particular cause of pollution is the intercepting drain which
discharges just below Tottenham Lock, and the Moselle
Brook (obviously mis.named) and the Stonebridge Brook
(which discharge at the Tottenham sewage works), and a
notice has been served on the Middlesex Council to abate the
latter pollution (consisting of surface water and crude sewage)
within three months.
These proceedings and revelations are highly interesting
in view of Hackney.s grounds of opposition to the
Walthamstow and Leyton sewage scheme, one of which aims
at safeguarding the Lea against further contamination."
A most interesting point, however, is that it is not Walthamstovv
and Leyton that are at fault at the moment, but on the authority of
the Lea Conservancy Board the areas causing the present pollution
pour their effluent into the Intercepting Drain, which "brings down
sewage effluents from Enfield, Edmonton, Finchley, Friern Barnet,
Hornsey, East Barnet and Cheshunt." These authorities are evidently
not assisting St. Albans Rural District in its work of lessening
the pollution of the River Lea.
The entire cost of the Public Health service in the Borough,
including all staff and the maintenance of the Tuberculosis Dispensaries,
the Welfare Centres, the Disinfecting Station, Isolation
Shelters and Mortuary, and all forms of assistance under the Tuberculosis
and Maternity and Child Welfare Schemes is estimated during
the coming financial year to amount to a rate of 4.08 pence. This
includes the expenditure required by the extension of the Maternity
and Child Welfare Service.
In conclusion, I have to thank the Public Health and Maternity
and Child Welfare Committees for their support and kind consideration,
and I wish to express my appreciation of the manner in which
my staff have performed their duties.
I am,
Yours obediently,
G. H. DART,
Medical Officer of Health.