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Although in the last ten years the population has increased
by about 11,000 and the number of houses by 5,000; the total
increase in the Staff in that period, apart from Maternity and
Child Welfare, consists of 1 Sanitary Inspector and 2 Junior Clerks.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Development in Enfield is still proceeding apace.
During 1933, 1,417 houses were erected, and during 1934, 1,238.
This makes a total of 2,655 in the course of two years. The houses
built during 1934 were all built by private enterprise.
I think it is safe to say that at least 80 per cent. of these houses
are of a type suitable for occupation by the working classes.
Despite this development, however, Enfield still retains its
general character of being both a rural and urban district.
I cannot help feeling, however, that as time goes by Enfield
will lose much of its rural characteristics.
Factories continue to be erected. The continuance of Town
Planning should prevent the District from being spoilt, and it is to
be hoped that eventually Enfield will be a District free from slums
and that lack of amenities that is bound to exist without such
control.
The District is, to a large extent, a dormitory for London, and
it is probable that the better facilities for travelling, resulting from
the opening of stations on the Piccadilly Tube at Enfield West and
Cockfosters, will increase this position.