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In accordance with the memorandum of the Ministry of
Health as to the Annual Reports of Medical Officers of Health for
this year, I propose in the fiist instance to give some particulars of
the physical features and general character of the District and
condition of its population.
I.—GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area (acres) ... ... ... ... ... 12,575
Population (Census 1921) ... ... ... 60,743
do. (estimated for 1925) ... ... 63,740
Number of inhabited houses (1921) ... ... 12,066
Number of families or separate occupiers (1921) 13.712
Rateable value ... ... ... ... ... ^353,820
Sum represented by a penny rate ... ... £1,229
Physical Features.
Enfield is one of the largest parishes in England, being sevenand
a-half miles long from east to west, about three-and-a half
miles across 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 12,575 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, and is hilly in character.
The Central, including the Ridgeway, Old Town, Bush Hill Park,
Clay Hill and Forty Hill, is, like the Western, partly on the London
clay, and the remainder on soil of a loamy nature with gravel below.
Bush Hill Park is now almost entirely built upon, the inhabitants
being mostly industrial.
The Kastern part of the District, the lowest point of which
(41 feet above Ordnance Datum) is found near the Flour Mills
Ponders End, lies in the Lea Valley. The soil is of loam, lying on