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GENERAL STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH—continued.
Lady Margaret Road 0.25 acres
Lea Road 0.13 acres
North Road Island 0.35 acres
Norwood Green 7.25 acres
Queen's Road 0.13 acres
Recreation Ground 18.00 acres
Southall Municipal Sports Ground 19.78 acres
Southall Park 26.77 acres
Swimming Bath Site, Dormers Wells 10.50 acres
The Manor House 2.00 acres
Viaduct Field 4.22 acres
West Middlesex Golf Course 108.00 acres
Western Road 0.17 acres
Wolf Fields 3.33 acres
Wolf Green 0.18 acres
250.71 acres
For general administration purposes and for the main statistical purposes of this report,
the district is divided into six wards, Waxlow Manor, Northcote, Hambrough, Dormers
Wells, Glebe and Norwood Green.
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, medical and toilet preparations, paint, dye, and wood works, laundries,
etc. There are no trades carried on which are at present scheduled as offensive trades.
Southall Borough Council maintains a swimming bath situated in the Recreation
Ground, Southall, which is one of the public parks. The surface area of the bath is 3,600
square feet (120 feet by 30 feet), cubic capacity 16,500 cubic feet (110,000 gallons). The
water is treated by break point chlorination, and a normal chlorine content of 1.0 parts per
million at the shallow end, and 0.7 at the deep end is maintained. During peak periods
this is increased to 4.0 parts per million at the shallow end in order to obtain 2.0 parts per
million at the deep end. Three samples of the water are taken daily by the staff for chlorine
and other chemical testing.
During 1954, the total number of persons using the bath was 27,057. The average
number of persons attending per day (wet or fine) was 117. The maximum number at any
one session was 400.
As this bath is uncovered, it is only opened for swimmers during the summer months—
May to September, and the attendance varies to a great extent according to weather conditions.
The number using the bath was greatly reduced from that in 1953, probably
because in 1954 there was a very poor summer, cool with frequent rain.
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