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Annual Medical Report
of
The Medical Officer of Health.
1905.
To the Chairman and Members of the Ruislip-Northwood Urban
District Council.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you the first Annual Medical Report
upon the Sanitary condition of your District.
As the result of an enquiry held on January 23rd, 1904,
powers were granted by the Local Government Board for the
conversion of the Rural Parish of Ruislip into an Urban District
under the control of the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District Council.
I was appointed Medical Officer of Health for this District
on January ist, 1905.
General Character of the District.
This District consists of a narrow strip of land lying at
the North-west corner of Middlesex, bounded on the North by
the County boundary between Middlesex and Hertfordshire; on
the West by Harefield and Ickenham Parishes ; on the East by
Pinner and Harrow Parishes; and on the South by Northolt
Parish.
The majority of the inhabitants reside at North wood on the
Northern edge of the District; the villages of Ruislip and
Eastcote are situated in the centre of the District.