Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenford]
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Greenford Urban District Council.
Annual Report for 1915.
Beaconsfield House,
Hanwell, W.
To the Chairman and Members of the Greenford Urban
District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Annual Report on the
Public Health of your District during the past year.
The natural and social conditions of the District as well
as its Sanitary circumstances, Water Supply, condition of
Rivers and Streams, remain the same. Its rural character
is unchanged. Your Surveyor informs me that the total
number of houses occupied is only 246.
The houses are grouped chiefly in clusters at Greenford
Park, Greenford, Greenford Green, Perivale, and West
Twyford, with considerable distances intervening, with only
a few houses dotted about.
Population.
According to a communication received from the Regis
trar General, the population used for estimating the various
rates based thereon should be the Civil Population, which he