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Crayford Urban District
Council.
To the Chairman and Members of the Crayford Urban
District Council, and Health Committee : —
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Fifth Annual
Report.
Instructions have been received from the Ministry
of Health that the Report for this year shall he a Survey
Report—i.e., in addition to the usual information it
contains a survey of the work for the past five years of
the Urban District Council as a local Sanitary Authority.
The Crayford Urban District Council was instituted
as a separate body in October, 1920, at a time which,
unfortunately, practically coincided with the end of the
boom period, which developed during the War, and continued
for a short space afterwards.
This boom, and subsequent depression has left its
mark to an unusual degree on our area. During the
War period to accommodate Munition Workers who
were transferred to this District to work at Messrs.
Vicker's Works, at Crayford and Erith, 800 hoiises were
erected at Crayford and 400 at Northumberland Heath.
The population increased 91.3 per cent, between the
Census of 1911 and that of 1921. Though, of course,
many families have left the District, it remains fairly
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