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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-1939 *51,670
Number of inhabited houses according to Rate Book 14,718
Rateable value £416,968
Sum produced by a penny rate £1,668
* This includes about 2,800 patients and 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 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 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 as detailed in previous
annual reports.
The estimated populations of these wards at the beginning of 1936 were as
follows:—
Waxlow Manor Ward 6,900
Northcote Ward 7,I5°
Hambrough Ward 8,050
Dormers Wells Ward 8,950*
Glebe Ward 10,250
Norwood Green Ward 7,800
* This includes the resident population of St. Bernard's Hospital (late Hanwell Mental Hospital)
which amounted to about 2,800
The majority of the houses in the district are occupied by good class working
people, chiefly engaged in the local factories and workshops. These include food, jam
and chemical works, engineering, hosiery, paint, dye and wood works, laundries, etc.
There are no trades carried on which are at present scheduled as offensive trades.
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