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288 cases in 1932, and it is gratifying to note that residents of the
Borough are presenting themselves in increasing numbers at the
Council's Diphtheria Immunisation Clinic for protection against
this disease. No less than 1,033 new patients were seen at the
Clinic during 1933 ; 128 persons were found to be naturally immune
to the disease and 490 completed a full course of immunising treatment.
Particulars with regard to the Clinic, together with a report
by the Medical Officer in Charge, will be found on pages 105 to 107
of this report.
The duties in connection with infant life protection, common
lodging houses, offensive trades, slaughterhouses and cowhouses,
transferred during the year from the London County Council to
the Metropolitan Borough Councils under the Transfer of Powers
(London) Order, 1933, are dealt with in this report. No increase
of staff has been necessitated by the taking over of these functions
apart from the transfer of an Infant Life Protection Visitor from
the County Council's staff to that of the Borough Council.
As will be seen in the "Housing" section of this report (pages
71 to 74) ; considerable progress has been made during 1933 with
the Borough Council's programme of slum clearance and re-housing,
and the London County Council has also commenced to deal with
the four largest unhealthy areas in the Borough by making a
Clearance Order as regards one of the areas, namely, the Northwold
Road area.
At the Official Opening of Powell House in Lower Clapton
Road on 5th May, 1934, where 198 flats have been erected to re-house
persons displaced from Clearance Areas, the following message was
received by the Mayor from the Minister of Health, the Rt. Hon.
Sir E. Hilton Young:—
"Please convey to your Council and their officers my
appreciation of the energetic and wholehearted manner in which
they have responded to the appeal of the Government to put an end
quickly and within a limited time to the evil of the slums. I
congratulate Hackney on the excellent start which they have made
and the commendable example which they have set."
Families from the Banister Street, Prince of Wales' Terrace,
Otley Terrace, Elsdale Street, East Street and Queen's Court areas
have now been transferred to these flats and it is hoped that the
work of erecting a further 160 fiats on the Banister Street site will
be commenced during 1934.