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THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHALL, 1956
HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR
*Alderman H. C. Douglas, J.P.
Deputy Mayor:
Councillor Mrs. I. Cavell, J.P.
†*Dane, A. T. (Chairman)
*Douglas, H. C., J.P.
Aldermen:
Gardner, F. E.
Hopkins, W. H.
†*LOWE, J.
*Marks, F. J., J.P.
Councillors :
Barrett, J.
*Barton, A. J.
Cavell, Mrs. I., J.P.
Cripps, C. B.
Day, F. R.
*Griffiths, Mrs. M. C.
Haigh, J.
†*Jones, Mrs. E. W.
*Love, P. J.
Rockhill, F. R. J.
Salmon, J.
*Shiel, E. J.
*Shepherd, A. H.
*Southey, P. G.
Steele, T. J.
Ward, J. H.
*Williams, Mrs. V. G. I.
Woodruff, J. A. T.
*Members of the Public Health Committee.
†Members of the Area Health Committee (Area No. 9).
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Southall.
MR. MAYOR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
I have the honour to present the 66th Annual Report on the health and circumstances
of the population of the Borough of Southall.
This Report was thought to be the 60th in the series, and in order to make comparisons
with the first year 1896, the Annual Report for that year was consulted. It was found that
in 1896 the then Medical Officer of Health was submitting his 6th Annual Report, and so
this book is the 66th in sequence from the first submitted by Doctor J. D. Windle to the
Southall-Norwood Urban District Council in 1891.
The Urban District of Southall-Norwood has grown in these years from a very small
country place with a population of 7,560 to a compact, highly industrialised community
with an estimated population of 53,220. In the earliest Annual Report available, that for
the year 1893, the birth rate is stated as 34 6, the death rate 115 and the infant mortality
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