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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-1938 *52,400
Number of inhabited houses according to Rate Book 13,457
Rateable value £405,192
Sum produced by a penny rate £1,603
* This includes about 2,800 patients ami staff resident at St. Bernard's 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 Islewortli. 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 is at the old Sewage Disposal
Works and is 32 feet above ordnance datum.
The average rainfall over a period of tweuty-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 1938 was 19.02 inches
(compared with 29.38 inches in 1937).