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Comparison of Vital Statistics of Ealing with those
of England and Wales, etc., 1925.
105 Great
England Towns London Ealing
and (including
Wales London)
Birth-rate 18.3 18.8 18.0 14.0
Death-rate 12.2 12.2 11.7 9.1
Infant Death-rate 75 79 67 56
Measles Death-rate 0.13 0.17 0.08 0.00
Whooping Cough Death-rate 0.15 0.18 0.19 0.04
Diarrhoea (under 2 yrs per
1,000 Births) 8.4 10.8 10.6 3.12
Diphtheria Death-rate 0.07 0.09 0.11 0.06
Scarlet Fever Death-rate . 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.01
Influenza Death-rate 0.32 0.30 0.23 0.35
NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Physical Features and General Character of the District.
The Borough of Ealing extends to 2,947 acres, and forms
roughly a rectangular area one mile and a half east to west and
two miles north to south. It is bounded on the north by the
sparsely populated district of Greenford, from which it is separated
by the River Brent, and on the south adjoins Brentford. On its
east and west boundaries it has Acton and Hanwell respectively.
The district is divided into two almost equal areas by the Uxbridge
Road, which also divides the district roughly into two parts
geologically, the northern composed of London clay, and the
southern of alluvial gravel. From the southern boundary the
surface slopes gradually upwards from 50 feet above sea level,
to the highest point at Hanger Hill two miles due north, 200 feet
above sea level, from which point it slopes downwards toward
the River Brent, the lowest point at which houses are built in this
region being 75 feet above sea level.