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Edmonton Urban District.
REPORT
of the
Medical Officer of Health
For the YEAR 1912.
PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE DISTRICT.
The Urban District of Edmonton has an area of 3,894 acres,
including 31 of water. It is situate in the County of Middlesex, on the
west bank of the River Lea. The chief watercourses are Salmon's Brook,
which takes a south-easterly course across the northern part of the district
to the sewage farm, but there turns due south and joins Pymmes Brook
on the extreme south-east corner of the district. Pymmes Brook flows
through the southern part of Edmonton and Pymmes Park in an easterly
direction as far as Angel Road Station, but a little further on it takes
a southern course and is joined by Salmon's Brook; the combined waters
ultimately fall into the River Lea below Tottenham Lock. The New River
lies on the western boundary.
The soil is loam and the subsoil consists of brick-earth and gravel of
varying depth overlying the London clay.
This Urban District is bounded by Enfield Urban District on the
north, and the Urban Districts of Southgate and Tottenham on the west
and south respectively. Chingford Urban District of the County of Essex
lies on the east, on the opposite bank of the River Lea. The district
is for the most part flat, rising slightly from the river marshes on the
east, to the higher ground to the westward.