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in the district is a constant source of worry and anxiety
to the Health Officials, because, in spite of all their
efforts to overcome the evil, it is constantly breaking out
afresh in some quarter or another of the district.
The last Government census showed a proportion of
5.04 persons to each inhabited house.
The very important subject of an extension and
readjustment of our boundaries is at present in abeyance,
but considering the urgency of this matter it must, before
very long, again come up for consideration. For the
good of the district it is most sincerely to be hoped that
a satisfactory arrangement, which will give to Wealdstone
a fair opportunity of developing into a much larger
and important centre than at present, will then be concluded.
I believe this development has been hindered
for some years for want of proper facilities of expansion,
especially in the direction of the higher land lying to
the North and North-West. The inclusion of a
reasonable area of this into the district would be decidedly
advantageous in many ways, it would assist in
developing the residential portions of the district, which,
from a health point of view, is most desirable.
The opportunity might then be taken to seriously
consider the question of bestowing a new name upon the
reconstructed district—one more descriptive of its
topography and parentage than the present name.
PROVISION OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCES AND AN
AMBULANCE FOR NON-INFECTIOUS CASES.
I beg leave to again refer to the pressing need for
providing a suitable number of Public Conveniences in
the streets and to commend this and the provision of an
ambulance for ordinary cases of sickness and accidents
to the consideration of the Council.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS.
These works are in good condition and the effluent
discharged has been quite satisfactory. The results have
quite come up to the expectations entertained when the
new works were constructed in 1910. An arrangement
has been come to with the Harrow District Council,
which has received the approval of the Local Government
Board, whereby the sewage from the Greenhill
district, previously treated at separate works immediately
contiguous to the Wealdstone Works, will now be treated
at the Wealdstone Works. This arrangement will doubtless
prove of great advantage to the district by doing