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EDMONTON URBAN DISTRICT.
REPORT
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health
For the YEAR 1914.
PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE DISTRICT.
The Urban District of Edmonton has an area of 3,894 acres, including 31
of water. It is situated in the County of Middlesex, on the west bank of the
River Lea. The chief watercourses are Salmon's Brook, which takes a southeasterly
course across the northern part of the district to the sewage farm, but
there turns due south and joins Pymmes Brook on the extreme south-east
corner of the district. Pymme9 Brook flows through the southern part of
Edmonton and Pymmes Park in an easterly direction as far as Angel Road
Station, but a little further on it takes a southern course and is joined by
Salmon's Brook; the combined waters ultimately fall into the River Lea below
Tottenham Lock. The New River lies on the western boundary.
The soil is loam and the subsoil consists of brick-earth and gravel of
varying depth overlying the London clay.
This Urban District is bounded by Enfield Urban District on the north
and the Urban Districts of Southgate and Tottenham on the west and south
respectively. Chingford Urban District of the County of Essex lies on the
east, on the opposite bank of the River Lea. The district is for the most part
flat, rising slightly from the river marshes on the east, to the higher ground to
the westward.
PAST HISTORY.
Edmonton is an ancient town mentioned in the Domesday Book as
"Adelmeton" (or the town of Aldhelm). On some existing milestones the
name is spelt "Edmondton." It is seven miles from London, in the Enfield
Division of the County, Hundred, Petty Sessional Division, Union and County
Court District of Edmonton, Rural Deanery of Enfield, and Archdeaconry and