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BOROUGH OF EALING.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Ealing, W.
March 15th, 1915.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Public Health Committee.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my Annual
Report (the fortieth) of the Sanitary and Health conditions
of this Borough during the year 1914, with the
usual vital statistics appertaining thereto, and I trust
a consideration of these will prove that, on the whole,
the general health state of the Borough during the
year will be considered quite satisfactory.
The general death rate remains at a favourable
level, there is a greatly diminished infantile rate of
mortality, but the birth rate is slightly lower. It will
be seen that the Borough, with its acreage of 2,947
acres (with a density of population of about 24.1 to
the acre) and a rateable value of £526,454, continues
to make a steady increase of population, and to meet
this increase a considerable addition has been made
to the number of dwellings. At the middle of last
year, it is calculated that 14,339 houses were in occupation.
During the year 280 new houses have been
passed for occupation, and of this number one was
constructed as a flat, to accommodate six families, one
for three families, and three were constructed to accommodate
two families. This shows a reduction of new
buildings of thirty-two compared with the previous