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THE HEALTH OF EALING,
To His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen and
Councillors of the Borough of Ealing.
It is my honour and privilege to present
to you the annual report on the health of
Ealing and its sanitary conditions, being the
thirty-third occasion of my doing so, and I
wish to acknowledge with sincere thanks
the help and support invariably accorded to
me by the Chairman and members of the
Public Health Committee, and also to express
to the members of my staff my thanks
for the satisfactory and helpful manner in
which they have carried out their responsible
duties.
It is gratifying to be able to inform you
that the vital statistics, under all heads,
present a favourable aspect, and in several
respects exhibit improved Features over the
previous year (1906) and the general results
may therefore be considered satisfactory.
Population.
The population of the borough continues
to be considerably added to although the
rate of increase is not quite so largely
marked as in some recent years. Houses of
various kinds passed for occupation between
June 30th, 1906. and June 30th, 1907, numbered
699, being a small decline compared
with some previous years. A considerable
portion of these new buildings were erected
in the south-western and western parts of
the borough, and adapted for the dwellings
of clerks, artizans, and members of the
working classes. It is needless to trouble
the Council with further details on this
subject or to explain the difficulties, which
increase rather than diminish, the further
we get from the last census, in forming the
reliable estimate of population, and which a
quinquennial census would do mucfh to facilitate.
The existing convenient modes of
communication with and our accessibility