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the Public Health Department. Systematic house to house inspection
under the regulations governing this form of inspection enables careful
records to be kept of the housing conditions in each part of the
Borough. The results of these inspections are entered up on the card
index system, so that the conditions found on inspection and re.inspection
of any particular street and any house in that street can easily be
ascertained. Administration of the health services is made more
difficult by the fact that in Hackney, with its total population of
224,700, there is also, quoting from the last Census return, a population
of 28,457 persons, equal in number to many Urban Districts, living
in two.room dwellings, and 9,627 living in one.room dwellings.
In spite of the difficulties that the housing conditions obviously make,
it is indeed a mater of great satisfaction that the health of the Borough
should, on the whole, remain so good.
The Public Health Committee and the Housing Committee are
considering, at joint meetings of the Committees, the question of overcrowding
and undesirable housing property with plans of areas and
other particulars relating to the housing of the Borough.
The entire cost of the Public Health service in the Borough, including
all staff, and the maintenance of the Tuberculosis Dispensaries,
the Welfare Centres, 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 3.95d. This includes the expenditure
required by the expansion of the Maternity and Child
Welfare service.
In conclusion, I have to thank the Public Health and Child
Welfare Committees for their support and kind consideration, and I
also 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.
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