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Urban District Council of Wood Green.
REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1913.
Sanitary Department,
Town Hall.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Urban District Council of Wood Green.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my Annual Report on the Health of the
Wood Green Urban District for the year 1913.
Physical Features of the District.
The District of Wood Green has an area of 1,625 acres.
The subsoil consists of various clays with a shallow pocket of
gravel in the Muswell Hill District, beneath which are beds of London
clay. The highest point is the site of the Alexandra Palace, which
is 300 feet above the ordnance datum, and the lowest point is 56 feet
above ordnance datum, at the junction of the Eastern end of the
District with Tottenham. The Western portion of the District,
known as the Alexandra Park District, in uneven and hilly, and