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HARROW - ON - THE - HILL URBAN DISTRICT
COUNCIL.
Annual Report
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1923.
by
CHARLESE. GODDARD, O.B.E., M.D.
To the Chairman and Members of the Harrow Urban District
Council,
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present the Annual Report of the
General Health Conditions of the Harrow Urban District for
the vear 1923,
AREA.
The area of the district is 2028 acres, so that, with
a population of 19,640, there are 9.6 persons to the acre,
POPULATION.
The population of Harrow at the taking of the Census in
1921 was 19,460.
In 1922 it was 19,440. It was estimated that in 1923 to
be 19,640 You remember I made special enquiry about these
figures and was assured by the Registrar-General that they
were arrived at by careful scientific methods, and in any case
we are bound to accept them as correct and base our statistics
thereon for those years.
In 1851 Harrow's population was only 2813. In 1901 it
was 10,220. In 1911, 17,074.