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PUBLIC OFFICES,
ENFIELD,
March 11th, 1914.
Medical Officer of Health’s
ANNUAL REPORT
for 1913.
To the Urban District Council of Enfield.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report
for the year 1913, which I trust you will find satisfactory. The
Report of your Sanitary Inspector, Mr. A. J. Munro, giving particulars
of the work done in the Sanitary Department, is also
incorporated.
In accordance with the Memorandum of the Local Government
Board as to the Annual Reports of Medical Officers of Health, which
inevitably leads to a certain amount of repetition each year, I
propose in the first instance to give some particulars of the physical
features and general character of the District and condition of its
population.
Enfield is one of the largest parishes in England, being sevenand-a-half
miles long from East to West, about three-and-ahalf
miles from North to South, and comprises about 20 square
miles. It is situated ten miles North of London, and is bounded
on the North by Hertfordshire, on the East by Essex, on the South
by Edmonton and Southgate, and on the West by South Mimms
and Hertfordshire.
It contains 12,601 acres, including 412 acres of water, and
naturally divides itself into three parts:—the Western; mainly