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THE HEALTH OF EALING.
To His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen and
Councillors of the Borough of Ealing.
I have the honour to submit to you my annual
report of vital statistics for the year 1905, with
observations resulting from the consideration of
these and other kindred sanitary subjects.
They will be found to be not quite of so highly
a satisfactory character as it has been my duty
to record from time to time, although the general
result may be considered favourable.
Our borough still maintains a progressive rate
of development, more especially in its west and
southern portions, the fact being that building
operations are there producing a considerable
increase of dwellings adapted for occupation by
the artisan and working classes, and out of proportion
to the larger houses erected in former
years, and still being erected. The causes of the
increase of the population of the kind referred
to, demanding suitable accommodation, are
fairly obvious, and require no detailed elucidation
from mo The largely increased facilities
of locomotion which has arisen during recent
years, will by itself largely account for the development.
Population.
The difficulty of making a fairly reliable estimate
of our population does not diminish, and
is not likely to do so during the intercensal
period, and it is much to be desired that a general
census should be taken more frequently, at
least quinquennially. It is interesting to state
that the number of inhabited houses in the
middle of 1905 was 9,260. compared with 8,756 in
1904, which was an excess of 1,218 houses over the
previous year The rate of increase of inhabited
houses which took place between 1903 and 1904.
has, therefore, not been maintained to the same
extent between the same periods of 1904 and
1905; in fact, it only amounted to 444 houses.
During the year 1905. 749 houses were passed for
occupation by the Surveyor's department,
compared with 853 in 1904, being a decrease
of fifty-four in number. Due consideration
of these data, and other facts, tend to