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Annual Report
ON THE
Health of the Metropolitan
Borough of Chelsea.
Year ending 31st December, 1928.
SECTION I.—NATURAL AND SOCIAL
CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH.
GENERAL STATISTICS.

Physical Features and General Character of the Area.-Time
Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea, situated near the centre of the Metropolis,
is bounded on the north by the Royal Borough of Kensington. om
the west by the Borough of Fulham, on the east by the City of west
minster, and on the south by the river Thames. It is a small compact
borough, less than two miles in length by about three-quarters of a mile
in width.
Over nearly the whole area the soil consists of gravel and sand,nighty
permeable to water. In a small portion of the western side of the
Borough there is a thin loamy deposit of brick earth resting upon the
gravel. There is a narrow strip of alluvial deposit extending along the
Embankment from Battersea Bridge westwards.
The northern portion of the area is largely built over. The central
zone comprises a number of pleasant squares occupied by people in
affluent circumstances. The grounds of the Royal Hospital, with the
river Thames and Battersea Park beyond, render the southern zone
unusually open.
Social Conditions. —The density of population (number of persons
per acre), as shown by the 1921 Census, is 97, the corresponding figure
for London, as whole, being 60. The density of population of each
of the five Wards in the Borough is as follows : —Church Ward, 124;
Stanley Ward, 122; Hans Town Ward, 93 ; Cheyne Ward, 83 ; Royal
Hospital Ward, 59.