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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH. 1Q^
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 1953) 59,560
Population - Census 1951 59,367
Number of Inhabited Houses according to Rate
Book 15,589
Rateable Value at 1.4.1953 £724,323
Sum produced by Id Rate £2,970
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.
During the year there has been some progress in the work of
demolition of insanitary or dilapidated houses, and details of this
will be found later in the Report.
A study of the figures from the last Census reveals that out
of a total of 19,982 households there were still in mid 1951 8539
families sharing houses and still 6126 households not possessing
a fixed bath. These figures will already be improved as a result
of the work on Slum Clearance as reported later in this book5 and
further demolitions and the abolition (proposed for 1954) of the
caravan sites existing in the Borough will improve them still
further.
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