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particulars of the overcrowding cases inspected on complaint or in
connection with applications for housing accommodation on page 91,
a memorandum on the conversion of dwelling houses into workshops
and other difficulties arising from the absence of Town Planning on
page 115, a detailed statement of particulars of house-to-house inspection
on complaint in the South Parliamentary Divison of the Borough,
as this district had been the subject of much adverse comment during
the year, on page 108, and a report on the damage done by the Floodings
from the River Lea on page 99.
The Housing Schemes undertaken by the Borough Council are
as follows: —
Houses already erected :—
79 houses situated in Casimir, Cleveleys and Gunton Roads.
66 maisonettes situated in Daubeney Road, Adley Street, Rock Road, Gilpin Road and
Homer ton Road.
48 maisonettes situated in Fletching Road.
1 cottage situated in Fletching Road.
Schemes now being carried out :—
100 flats in Southwold Road.
92 maisonettes in Southwold Road and Mount Pleasant Hill.
35 flats in Powell Road.
Conversion in progress :—
58, Kenninghall Road, being converted in four flats.
The River Lea continues to cause trouble owing to sewage
pollution.
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 4.24d. 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 Officcr of Health.