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GENERAL STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH, 1952
Area in acres (including 116 acres of foreshore of
River Thames and 24 acres of inland water) 2,449.5
Population - Census 1931 62,617
Population - Registrar-General's Estimate for
area (mid 1952) 59,970
Population - Census 1951 59,354
Number of Inhabited Houses according to Rate
Book 15,476
Rateable Value at 1.4.1952 £715,638
Sum produced by 1d Rate £2,934
The Borough is divided into nine Wards:
Brentford; Brentford East
Brentford West
Brentford Central
Chiswick: Chiswick Park
Grove Park
Bedford Park
Gunnersbury
Old Chiswick
Turnham Green
The houses in the district are occupied by a mixed type
population including artisans, factory workers, clerical and
professional people of all grades, and the types of dwelling vary
from small working class property to detached residences of fair
size.
Some of the old property has deteriorated through age and the
damage of war to a condition in which it can be considered no longer
fit for human habitation and sections of this old property are in
the process of survey with a view to demolition and rebuilding.
Details concerning this will be found later in the Report.
Overcrowding of individual houses is still a considerable
problem in spite of the extensive building programme carried out by
the Borough Council, and although the majority of applicants for
Council housing made their requests since the War, there are still
some pre-War applicants not yet housed because of having to give way
to the greater claims of those from overcrowded or insanitary
dwellings.
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