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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
Area (acres) : Land, 2554.5 Water, 50. Total 2,604.5
Population—Registrar General's estimate—mid-1935 *48,270
Estimate based on overcrowding Survey in December,
1935 *49,000
Number of inhabited houses according to Rate Book 12,360
Rateable value £369,633
Sum produced by a penny rate £1,455
•This includes about 2,500 Patients resident in Hanwell Mental Hospital.
The Urban District of Southall-Norwood is traversed by the main road
from London to Oxford and is about nine miles from the Marble Arch. It is
roughly triangular in shape and is bounded on the east and north by the Borough
of Ealing, on the west by the Urban District of Hanger and Harlington, and on
the south by the Borough of Heston and Isleworth. The greatest length of
the district from north to south is 2.8 miles and the greatest breadth is 3.1 miles.
The soil is mainly gravel, overlaid with clay and brick earth.
The highest point in the district is at the Water Tower in Allenby Road,
and is 143 feet above ordnance datum; the lowest point is at the Sewage
Disposal Works and is 32 feet above ordnance datum.
The average rainfall over a period of twenty years is 22.97 inches per
annum. The nearest Meterological station is Hangar Hill, and from its records
it appears that the driest year in the last twenty years was 1921, when there
was a rainfall of 14.74 inches, and the wettest year was 1927, when there was
a rainfall of 35.95 inches. The rainfall in Southall in 1935 was 22.17 inches
(compared with 16.63 inches in 1934).
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