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GENERAL STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE BOROUGH
Area (Acres) V2,607.762
Population—1961 Census Year 51,337
Population—Registrar-General's estimate (mid 1964) 57,220
Number of inhabited houses according to the Rate Book at 31st March, 1964 15,049
Average number of occupants per house 3.80
Sum produced by a penny rate (1963/1964) £13,675
Rateable Value (31st March, 1964) £3,345,278
Parks and Open Spaces controlled by the Council:—
Brent Meadow 8.92 acres
Cranleigh Play Park 2.00 acres
Dormers Wells Housing Site 2.99 acres
Dudley Road Island 0.13 acres
King George's Field 22.48 acres
Football Ground, Western Road 3.51 acres
Frogmore Green 0.35 acres
Glade Lane 27.93 acres
Havelock Road Open Space 2.22 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
Queens 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 8.92 acres
The Manor House 2.00 acres
West Middlesex Golf Course 108.00 acres
Western Road 0.17 acres
Wolf Fields 3.33 acres
Wolf Green 0.18 acres
Land to north-west of Kingsbridge Crescent 0.12 acres
Land on north side of Spencer Street 0.31 acres
Tentelow Lane Island Site 0.25 acres
279.15 acres
Southall is a County District, compact in shape, being almost a square, with water
boundaries on three sides—the River Brent on part of the east, the Grand Union Canal
and the Yeading Brook on the west and the Grand Union Canal on part of the south.
The Borough is highly industrial, containing large factories for food processing and
engineering, and many smaller factories producing a great variety of semi-finished or
finished products. The development of the Borough has been rapid, mainly within the
present century, and so there has been little slum clearance to deal with, but there is still
a good deal of sub-standard housing, i.e. houses without baths or without hot water supply,
and some without indoor sanitary accommodation. The problem of multi-occupation of
such houses by members of the same family or by different families brings problems of
cleanliness and the maintenance of freedom from infectious disease and from diseases
encouraged by faulty hygiene. Areas of land in two neighbouring Boroughs have been used
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