[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich].

  • Woolwich (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1929?]
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    11 houses which were built by the local authority. There are now 2,034 houses on the Council's estate at Eltham and plans have been approved for the erection of a further 142, on some of which work has been started. A report on the Council's housing scheme is given at the end of Section VII. Mr. A. G. Duck, Chief Sanitary Inspector, had been in indifferent health from the beginning of the year and felt it necessary to apply for superannuation, to take effect from the 31st July. He was much esteemed by members of the Council and his colleagues and at his retirement the Council adopted the following resolution :— (a) That the Council hereby places on record its appreciation of the long and faithful services of Mr. Albert George Duck, Chief Sanitary Inspector, formerly to the parish of Plumstead, and to the Borough since its creation in 1900, over a period of 38 years, and wishes him renewed health and happiness in his retirement. (b) That the above resolution be suitably engrossed on vellum and presented to Mr. A. G. Duck, and that the Seal of the Council be affixed thereto. To me, personally, he was a loyal and helpful colleague, ever willing to assist in the work of the Department, not only in his own section but in the work of the clinical sections as well. He designed the tuberculosis shelters now used by the department, prepared models of simple devices which could be made by fathers for making easy the domestic trials and difficulties of mothers, and he was an interesting, racy and popular lecturer at annual Health Weeks. He has well earned his retirement but it is to be hoped that from time to time we shall see and hear him again in Woolwich. The opening of the War Memorial Hospital in March marked the development of two extensions in the Maternity and Child Welfare scheme. For the first time beds became