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Sanitary Department ,
Town Hall.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Urban District Council of Wood Green.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my Annual Report on the Health of
the Wood Green Urban District for the year 1919.
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 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 the 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) is uneven and hilly, and
has the highest altitude. Roughly, the District North of Lordship
Lane averages 108 feet above ordnance datum, and the portion
South of the Lane about 70 feet above ordnance datum.
It is situated in the County of Middlesex, to the North of
London; it is bounded on the North side by the Parish of Southgate,
on the South almost wholly by the Borough of Hornsey, on the
East by the Parish of Tottenham, and on the West by Hornsey
and Friern Barnet.
Social Conditions.
The inhabitants of the District are chiefly those of the artisan
class, and those employed in commercial pursuits in London.