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Ealing 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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The Central Aid Society and the Ealing Philanthropic Institution
do excellent work in the district by rendering assistance in
many necessitous cases.
The Clerk to the Board of Guardians has kindly supplied
information regarding the amount of Poor Law Relief which was
distributed in the Borough of Ealing during the year. This was
as follows:—
Money Kind Total
Unemployed £3,441 9 0 £253 8 3 £3,694 17 3
Ordinary 189 14 10 296 13 8 486 8 6
Total £3,631 3 10 £550 1 11 £4,181 5 9
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.
The population of the Borough in the middle of 1925, as
estimated by the Registrar General, was 68,410. During the year
the natural increase in the population, which is the excess of births
over deaths, was 276.
At the Census of 1921 the population was 67,755, and was distributed in the Wards as follows :—
TABLE I.
| Ward. | Families or separate occupiers | Population. | Persons per Acre. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Total | ||||
| No. 1 | or Drayton | 1,868 | 3,388 | 4,147 | 7,535 | 21.7 |
| No. 2 | or Castlebar | 2,730 | 4,254 | 6,651 | 10,905 | 19.5 |
| No. 3 | or Mount Park | 1,858 | 2,839 | 5,153 | 7,992 | 9.4 |
| No. 4 | or Lammas | 3,872 | 7,446 | 8,449 | 15,895 | 53.9 |
| No. 5 | or Manor | 3,853 | 6,567 | 8,485 | 15,052 | 43.0 |
| No. 6 | or Grange | 2,566 | 4,417 | 5,959 | 10,376 | 18.9 |
| Total | 16,747 | 28,911 | 38,844 | 67,755 | 23.0 | |