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PUBLIC OFFICES,
ENFIELD.
March 25th, 1915.
Medical Officer of Health's
ANNUAL REPORT
For 1914.
To the Urban District Council of Enfield.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual
Report for the year 1914, 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 seven
and a half miles long from East to West, about three and a half
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
agricultural, with centres of population at Hadley Wood and
Cockfosters, is situate on the London Clay, und is hilly in character,
the highest point in the District being at "Stormont" (near Potters
Bar), 418 feet above Ordnance Datum. The Central; including