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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH.
Area (acres): Land, 2,554 5. Water, 50. Total, 2,604 5.
Population—Registrar-General's estimate—mid-1938 *†52,680
Number of inhabited houses according to Rate Book 14,560
Rateable value £413,121
Sum produced by a penny rate £1,614
* This includes about 2,800 patients and staff resident at St. Bernard's Hospital.
† This figure is used for calculation of birth rate. Population figure for calculating death
and infectious disease rates is 52,430.
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 31 miles.
The soil is mainly gravel, overlaid with clay and brick earth.
The Council control the following parks and 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 Fields 3.33 acres.
Southall Municipal Sports Ground 20 acres.
Jubilee Park 11.13 acres.
Durdans Park 29.5 acres.
Viaduct Field 4.22 acres.
Dairy Meadow 6.21 acres.
Swimming Bath Site 10.5 acres.
West Middlesex Golf Course 136.16 acres.
I am indebted to Mr. J. B. Thomson, the Engineer and Surveyor, for the above
information.
For general administrative purposes and for the main statistical purposes of this
report the district is divided into six Wards with boundaries roughly as follows:—
No. 1. Waxlow Manor Ward.—This ward occupies the northern-most part of the
Borough, its southern boundary being Spikes Bridge Playing Fields, Cranleigh
Gardens, Denbigh Road, Dormers Avenue, Allendale Avenue, Cornwall
Avenue and Allenby Road.
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