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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 —
Number of inhabited houses according to Rate Book —
Rateable value £419,320
Sum produced by a penny rate
The Council control the following parks and open spaces :—
Southall Park 26 acres.
Recreation Groun 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 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.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATE
Whole District.
Total deaths, 444. (Males, 223 ; Females, 221).
Crude Death Rate,—
For extracts from vital statistics and causes of death see Appendix Tables I and II.
From these it will be noted that the deaths are lower in 1942 than in 1941.
The deaths from infectious disease are lower, but those from cancer are 1 higher.
Deaths from tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases are higher than in 1941.
The total number of deaths registered of persons belonging to the district and
dying within the district at all ages and from all causes was 178 (males 84 and females
94). For statistical purposes it is necessary to add to this figure the deaths of persons
ordinarily resident in the district who died in various London Hospitals, the Hillingdon
County Hospital, other Middlesex County Hospitals and elsewhere outside the district.
These " outside " deaths were 266 in number (males 139 and females 127). The total
number of deaths therefore belonging to the district is 444.
The deaths of non-Southall residents in the St. Bernard's Hospital (not included
in the above figures) numbered 257 (males 116 and females 141).
For the distribution of deaths in the various Wards see Appendix Table III,
and for the comparison of general birth and death rates and rates of maternal
mortality, see Appendix Table IV.
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