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Sign me up to the mailing list Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events. Sign up About our privacy policy. By the clerk's duties required daily and regular attendance during office hours, and from that date he was allowed a small sum on the petty cash account for clerical help. The local board's surveyor had also worked for the highway board. In a resident full-time road surveyor was appointed to help him.

When the surveyor resigned in the board advertised for a full-time resident engineer and surveyor. The appointment of William Dawson, a civil engineer experienced in municipal work in London, Portsmouth, and Bristol, at this crucial stage of Leyton's growth introduced vigour and confidence to the board's work.

In a salary was substituted, and a second collector appointed. The board also appointed, on an annual basis, a sanitary inspector and a medical officer. In the board stopped paying on commission for assistance with private street improvements. Instead, this work became the responsibility of the clerk's and surveyor's offices.

In view of this, the terms of both appointments were altered, to include allowances for the employment of staff. But in the board invited its finance committee to consider the advantages of all departmental staff being engaged directly by the board.

The press were being admitted to the board's meetings by In malpractices in tendering for road contracts, exposed by the press, were investigated, and two contractors who admitted operating a 'knockout' were debarred from tendering. A succession of ratepayers' associations kept watch on the board's proceedings from The board held office just before and during the years when Leyton had a bigger proportionate growth rate than any other English town with over 50, inhabitants.

The cause of this increasing expenditure was the acceleration of building. In there were 1, houses in the parish. But by about houses were being built each year. The board's first building by-laws came into force in In the board's sanitary committee stated that builders were ignoring them. When Dawson became surveyor in he immediately inspected every house being built.

With few exceptions he found the by-laws were indeed being contravened, and he charged 32 builders by name. The board supported him, authorizing the serving of notices and, if necessary, legal proceedings. A deputation of builders to the board was rebuffed, and within a year or two most of them had come into line or left the district. By the by-laws were being generally observed. In the previous ten years some 7, plans had been approved.

Building on this scale created problems. The provision of sewerage and other public services is dealt with below. Between and the mileage of maintained streets rose from about 20 to over The health of the district was consistently good, with the exception of the Harrow Green area, where, in the early s, the death rate from infectious diseases was above the national average, owing to the insanitary state of the small shared houses built in the s.

The sanitary inspector's visits were concentrated there with noticeable improvement. Milk was often the source of infection. A smallpox epidemic in —6, with 98 cases involving 24 deaths, was mainly at Harrow Green, among families employed over the district boundary in the infected area of West Ham. An isolation hospital was provided from Under the Local Government Act, , the local board was replaced by an urban district council fn. In an extension to the town hall was opened in Ruckholt Road.

The council's staff in , taken over from the local board, numbered fewer than As wages were paid by the clerk a small book-keeping section developed in his department.

In the council resolved that all officials, except the clerk and medical officer, should be full-time; that the next clerk should be full-time, and that, while the bookkeeping should remain under the control of the clerk, the next vacancy should be filled by a professional accountant. From , pressed by the Local Government Board, the medical officer gave up his private practice and became a full-time officer. From an accountant replaced the book-keeper, though a local bank manager continued to act as treasurer until From , when Ralph Vincent, clerk since , resigned, that appointment, too, became full-time.

After the district council took over from the local board, the rate of building did not slacken until about ; 8, plans were approved in the council's first eight years of office.

By it had 66 miles of road, including 10 miles of main road. Most of the services provided or improved by the council are described elsewhere. The district rate after , still made half-yearly, was usually over 3 s. After the war, however, the poundage rose sharply, to 9 s. Consistently the separate poor-rate which included the county and police rates was higher than the district rate, rising from to over 16 s. Before the First World War party politics were unknown in the council chamber, fn.

As a result of this organized hostility the council's attempt in to promote a Bill providing for a staff superannuation scheme, improved borrowing facilities, and increased powers for street improvements all proposals later brought into effect was defeated. The election produced stalemate on the council, followed from by domination by the association's candidates up to the time of incorporation. Municipal incorporation was being seriously discussed in Leyton as early as , but without result.

A formal petition to the Privy Council in , held up by two royal commissions on local government, was granted in The borough retained the urban district's division into 10 wards, each thenceforward represented by one alderman and three members.

In part of Kirkdale Road school was adapted as offices for the education department. When classes began at the South-West Essex Technical College in the old technical institute became an extension to the town hall.

In , as part of a general office reorganization, the health department moved out of the town hall to premises in Sidmouth Road. By the corporation employed officers and staff. After local elections were never free of party politics. In the s and s the choice lay between the Labour candidates and those of the ratepayers' association, who denied that they represented a combination of the political enemies of the Labour party or received support from political funds.

Labour members controlled the council from to , but thereafter, up to the Second World War, control alternated, with two-thirds of the electorate never voting in local elections. During the Second World War Leyton, though part of the administrative county of Essex, came under the operational control of the London civil defence region.

Bombing had demolished 1, houses and damaged 26, more. In , after the Gas Act, , the assets of both companies were transferred to the North Thames gas board. Under powers obtained by the local board in fn. A main drain was constructed at Leytonstone soon after it was constituted a special drainage district in In the West Ham board secured a Chancery order restraining the Leyton board from passing sewage into the Wanstead ditch and polluting the Channelsea river.

To meet this crisis, the board in commissioned a consulting engineer to carry out a sewerage scheme. Contact Waltham Forest Council. Please check this website for information about a particular service. Many of our departments list their phone numbers in their own section of the website.

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