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WEMBLEY URBAN DISTRICT.
Annual Report, 1919.
To the Chairman and Members of the Wembley Urban
District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to report upon the natural and social
conditions and the sanitary circumstances of the District for
the year 1919, being the 26th Annual Report issued since the
formation of the Council.
The Wembley District, bounded on the North b\
Harrow and Wealdstone, West by Harrow, Greenford and
Ealing, South by Ealing and Willesden, East by Kingsbury
and Willesden, has an area of 4564 acres—is situated,
amidst pleasant undulating- meadow lands, is capable by
reason of unusual facilities for access to London (having
four railways, eleven stations, and a tramway service) of
attracting in the near future a much larger residential population.
Under favouring circumstances the potentiality for suchincrease
will be more easily realised when it is considered
that the District is 1000 acres larger than the borough of
Ealing, has twice the area of Harrow, is actually greater
in area than Willesdep, and four times the size of Wealdstone.
In spite of the fact that the soil is London clay, me
salubrity of the climate is well known—the air many times
more bracing than London—the difference being very marked
on returning- from the Metropolis in the evening.
It is an undoubted fact, too, that children thrive to an
extraordinary degree in every part of the district—whilst this
is a fact, it should be remembered that no one should regard
Wembley as a typically suitable resort for those suffering
from gout, rheumatism or any form of tuberculosis. Even
to these there have been many exceptions—particularly
noticeable with those who have been careful to live in dry
houses, wear warm clothing and live circumspectly.