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13
TOWN PLANNING
Through the action recently taken by the Council in passing a
Town-planning resolution, wide powers will be placed in their hands
for the judicious control of the development of Wanstead, with an eye
not merely to the most remunerative utilization of each estate, but to
the convenience and welfare of the community as a whole.
Bad housing increases the incidence of infectious and other
diseases and has further serious consequences, while on the other hand
there is nothing in the whole range of Preventive Medicine so important
as good housing as an agency in the general welfare of the people.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
PATRICK F. MACGREGOR.
Public Health Department,
Council Offices,
Wanstead,
April, 1920.
The following additional information required by the Ministry
of Health has been obtained since the above was printed :—
POOR LAW RELIEF in Wanstead in 1919 amounted to
£210 16s. lid. for Out-Relief. The cost of Indoor-Relief was not
ascertainable.
HOSPITAL TREATMENT was received by 28 Wanstead
residents during the year at the Walthamstow, Wanstead and Leyton
General Hospital. These were in-patients and were chiefly operation
cases. A certain number of residents no doubt were treated at other
hospitals, but of these no record has been obtained.