[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton UDC 1909].
- Edmonton (London, England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton UDC 1909]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![putting to good use the monies supplied by the Government. All the men “ siet on ” have been given three weeks’ work at 6d. per hour. Some selected families have been assisted to emigrate to Canada. But unemployment has been less acute during the last three months of the year than it was at the same period of 1908, for in October there were about 500 names less on the Committee’s register than at the same date last year. The Labour Exchanges Act, 1909, will, it is expected, do much good in this direction. (See Section “ The Legislation of 1909.”) The Old Age Pensions Act, 1908, has already proved a most beneficent measure; in Edmonton aged men and women, are now (December, 1909) enjoying State pensions outside the Workhouse and its depressing in¬ fluences. [I should like to have been able to fill in these two blank spaces, but the Commissioner of Customs and Excise refused my request, because “ it is not in accordance with their practice to furnish the desired information.” Some officials are more reticent than Sir Robert Anderson.] INSTITUTIONS. The workhouses of two large Unions are situated in Fore Street Ward. The one belonging to the Strand Union, London, to which is attached the Strand Union Schools, receives its inmates from the Strand District alone : its population, therefore, does not enter into our statistics. The Institution belonging to the Edmonton Board of Guardians receives a certain proportion of its inmates from this district, and such proportion is treated as part of our population for statistical purposes. The large bulk of the inmates, however, are derived from Tottenham,, Southgate, Wood Green, Hornsey, Enfield, Cheshunt (Herts.), and Waltham Abbey (Essex), which places make up the large Poor-Law Union of Edmonton, and these inmates, of course, do not enter into our vital statistics. In March, 1909, the estimated population of Edmonton Union was 466,901 ; rateable value £2,306,961. Amongst a total of forty Guardians, Edmonton District proper has only four representatives. The Guardians of Edmonton Union have been much engaged in build¬ ing operations this year—which will cost upwards of £72,724. A home for the nurses was completed—or said to be completed—about March. (For fur¬ ther details see “ Housing ” section.) A new Infirmary, to accommodate 408 patients with an administrative block in the centre, is nearing completion ; the Local Government Board have decided to regard this as an institution separate from the workhouse proper, and its management is to be placed under a Resident Medical Superintendent. A new Master and Matron of the Work-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30431372_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
