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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH
Area (acres): Land, 2554.5. Water, 50. Total 2,604.5
Population—Registrar General's estimate—mid-1936 *49,550
Number of inhabited houses according to Rate Book 13,300
Rateable value £386,250
Sum produced by a penny rate £1.475
* This includes about 2,500 Patients resident in Hanwell Mental Hospital.
The Borough of Southall 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 Hayes 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 old
Sewage Disposal Works and is 32 feet above ordnance datum.
The average rainfall over a period of twenty-one years is 23.4 inches
per annum. The nearest Meteorological station is Hangar Hill, and from its
records it appears that the driest year in the last twenty-one 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 1936 was
24.07 inches (compared with 22.17 inches in 1935).
The Council control the following open spaces:—
Southall Park 26 acres
Recreation Ground 18 acres
Manor House Grounds 2 acres
Norwood Green 7.25 acres
Frogmore Green .35 acre
Wolf Green .18 acre
Wolf Field .83 acre
Spikes Bridge Field 20 acres
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