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Annual Report
on the
Health of the Metropolitan Borough
of Chelsea.
Year ending 31st December, 1930.
SECTION I.—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL
CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH.
GENERAL STATISTICS.
TABLE No. 1.
Area
(acres) 660
Population:—
(Census, 1921)
63,700
(Estimated, 1930)*
62,680
Number of Inhabited Houses, 1921
10,355
Number of Inhabited Houses (end of 1930) according to
Rate Books 11,777
Number of families or separate occupiers, 1921
16,555
Rateable value, October, 1930
£1,110,730
Sum represented by a penny rate, October, 1930
£4,535
*(By direction of the Ministry of Health, the Registrar-General's mid-year 1929
estimate of population is utilised, as the 1930 estimate will not bo available
until July, 1931).
Physical Features and General Character of the Area.—The
Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea, situated near the centre of the Metropolis,
is bounded on the north by the Royal Borough of Kensington,
on the west by the Borough of Fulham, on the east by the City of Westminster,
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, highly
permeable to water. In a small portion of the western side of the Boroiigh
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.
I The northern portion of the area is largely built over. The central
zone comprises a number of pleasant squares occupied by people in