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The River Lea remains, and has remained during the past 5
years, in a most offensive condition, and has been the subject of
many complaints.
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
3.9 pence. This includes the expenditure required by the extension
of the Maternity and Child Welfare Service. In 1921, the Electrical
Engineer in a report to the Public Health Committee, stated
that if every householder in Hackney could be induced to burn his
waste paper and other inflammable rubbish instead of putting it
into the dustbin for removal to the Destructor, the rates in this
one direction alone could be reduced by 3¼d. in the pound. No
doubt prices have considerably altered since that date, but the
comparison still remains an interesting one.
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.