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(3). Mention of any further action of importance
in the organisation or development of Public
Health services by the Local Authority or considered
desirable by the Medical Officer of Health.
(4). Must note the Natural and Social conditions
of the District Inspection and Supervision of
food ; Prevalence and control over Infectious Disease;
Maternity and Child Welfare; other Clinics; Hospital
Accommodation, etc.
As far as possible I have adhered to the sequence as
suggested in the instructions of the Ministry.
NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
The Town and District of Harrow-on-the-Hill is
situated ten miles from the Marble Arch, five miles from
Willesden, five miles from Ealing Broadway, eight miles
from Watford, is in the Watford County Court District
and in the Gore Petty Sessional Division of Middlesex.
It is bounded on the North by Wealdstone Urban
District and the Hendon Rural District; on the South by
Wembley, Greenford and Uxbridge Rural District; on
the West by Uxbridge Rural District; and on the East
by Wembley.
The Area of the District comprises 2028 acres and
includes the main parts of the ecclesiastical parishes of
Harrow, Greenhill, Roxeth and St. Peter's.
A hundred years ago the old Parish of Harrow included
not only Roxeth and Greenhill, but Sudbury,
Wembley, Alperton, Kenton, Preston, Harrow Weald
and Pinner.
The Town of Harrow-on-the-Hill has an altitude
of 400 feet above sea-level, and it is from 200 to 250 feet
above the plain below, the immediate vicinity of the old
Church on the North side and Julian Hill on the South
being the highest ground. Between these two points
is a long narrow ridge of land, somewhat cresentric in
shape, wide enough only for one street, the' East side
sloping down abruptly to the water and the pleasant
secluded wooded meadowland known as " The Park,"
the West side to the Lower Road and the Village of
Roxeth, the South side to the Mount Park Estate.