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HENR 10
THE RURAL DISTRICT OF HENDON.
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
Medical Officer of Health for the Year 1920.
Area: 11321 Acres.
Population, 1911 Census. 14,161.
Estimated Population 1920. 17,545.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies & Gentlemen,
I have the honour of presenting you with my Annual Report
upon the sanitary condition of your District for the year 1920.
Area and General Description of District.
The area of the District is 11321 acres. It lies upon the
southern and western slopes of the spur of high land running from
the Barnet district and jutting out into the Weald of Harrow.
The dividing lines of the five Parishes run approximately
north and south, the northern portion of the Parishes resting
on the hill and the southern lying in the valley.
The highest point in the District, 502 feet above Ordnance
datum, is oh the Watford Road at the Hertfordshire boundary.
The lowest point, about 150 feet, is to be found at the south*
east corner of Pinner Parish.
The District is distinctly a residential one, being somewhat
heavily timbered, and has a very small acreage of arable land.
The agricultural portion of it is laid down m grass, and the
chief agricultural product is hay.
Running from east to west, the parishes come in the following
order : Edgware, Little Stanmore, Great Stanmore, Harrow Weald,
and Pinner.
The District lies upon the great London clay bed, which is
capped on the higher land by patches of gravel of varying thickness.
In some places, notably in the north-east corner of Harrow Weald,
the subsoil water rises to within a foot or eighteen inches of the
surface of the gravel.
Public Open Spaces: Besides the Stanmore Cricket Ground (seven
acres) Stanmore Marsh (14 acres) the Little Common, Stanmore,
(6¼ acres) and the Pinner Beds (10 acres) the principal common
lands are these of Harrow Weald and Great Stanmore. The area of
the former is 34¾ acres, of the latter 12l½ acres.
VITAL STATISTICS:-
Estimated Population.
The estimated population according to the Registrar General
is 17545, divided among the Parishes as follows
Edgware 1523.
Little Stanmore 2134.
Great Stanmore 2284.
Harrow Weald 2823.
Pinner 8781.
Births and Birth Rate.
There were 346 births in the District, of which 11 were