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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 1945) 49,880
Number of inhabited houses according to Rate Book 13,592
Rateable value £419,412
Sum produced by a penny rate £1,540
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 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, 462. (Males, 231; Females, 231).
Crude Death Rate, 9 26.
For extracts from vital statistics and causes of death, see Appendix, Tables II and III.
A slight rise in the death rate, which was 9 26, as against 9 04 in 1944, is to be observed.
An analysis of the causes of death shows that the increases are mainly in deaths from tuberculosis,
cancer and heart and other circulatory diseases.
The increase in the deaths from tuberculosis from 20 in 1944 to 31 in 1945 is rather
grave when considered in conjunction with the slight increase in tuberculosis notifications.
The increase in the total number of deaths from cancer does not, however, bring the
figure as high as in previous years.
The rise in the death rate from heart disease and other circulatory diseases is possibly
a manifestation of war strain.
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 214 (males no and females
104). 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 248 in number (males 121 and females 127). The total
number of deaths therefore belonging to the district was 462.
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