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Annual Medical Report
OF
The Medical Officer of Health.
1908.
To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District Council
of Ruislip-Northu'ood.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my fourth Annual Medical Report
upon the Sanitary condition of this 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 Parish of Ruislip (at that time part of the
Rural District of Uxbridge) into an Urban District under the
control of the Ruislip-Nortlnvood Urban District.
I was appointed Medical Officer of Health on January
1st, 1905.
General Character of the District.
This District lies at the north-west corner of Middlesex;
it is bounded on the North by the County of Hertfordshire; on
the West by the Parishes of Harefield and Ickenham; on the
East by those of Pinner and Harrow; and on the South by
Northolt Parish in the Rural District of Uxbridge.
The majority of the inhabitants live at Northwood,
an entirely residential non-manufacturing District at the
most northerly point of the Parish. The villages of
Ruislip and Eastcote are situated in the centre of the District