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SGENERAL STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITION
OF THE BOROUGH
Area (acres)2,607762
Population—Registrar-General's estimate (Mid 1955) 533840
Number of inhabited houses according to Rate Book 14,871
Average number of occupants per house 3.62
Sum produced by a penny rate £15846
Rateable Value £444,521
The Council controls the following parks and open spaces:-
Brent Meadow 4.70 acres
Cranleigh Gardens 2.00 acres
Dormers Wells Housing Site 2.99 acres
Dudley Road Island 0.13 acres
Durdans Park 29.55 acres
Football Ground, Western Road 3.51 acres
Frogmore Green 0.35 acres
Havelock Road Open Space 2.25 acres
Jubilee Park 11.13 acres
Lady Margaret Road 0.25 acres
Land at junction of Windmill Lane and Tentelow Lane 0.48 acres
Land on west side of Cranleigh Gardens 1.07 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
254.51 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.
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