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CARSHALTON URBAN DISTRICT.
Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health
for the year 1925.
(1) Natural and Social Conditions of the Distriot.
Area and Population.—The area of the District is 2,926 acres.
The population at the Census, 1921, was 14,021 persons, and was
estimated by the Registrar-General at 15,660 for the year 1925.

In 1921 there were 1,582 persons in 12 Institutions in the District;
1,247 persons, of whom 880 were patients, were enumerated in
hospitals ; included in this number were 771 patients, 364 males and
407 females, in the Queen Mary's Hospital.
Physical Features.—The District is situated upon, and at the
foot of, the northern slope of the chalk downs. The whole of the
district south of the ponds, including the greater part Of the old
village (120ft. above sea-level), a large residential district which has
been recently developed to the south, and Carshalton-on-the-Hill (250ft.
above sea-level), are on the chalk; the northern part is situated mainly
on a bed of river-gravel and sand overlying the Thanet sand, the
Woolwich and Reading beds, and the London clay (100ft. above sealevel).
The drainage is to the River Wandle, one head of which rises
from ponds and springs in the town.
Inhabited Houses and Families.—At the Census, 1921, there
were 2,751 inhabited separate dwellings-, occupied by 3,017 private
families, There were in addition 13 other occupied dwellings.