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important conditions of public health, of warning
them against particular dangers, and of securing
that highly important co-operation and confidence
between them and the Health Authority and its
staff, which is essential to successful health
administration."
Natural and Social Conditions of the District.
Population, Census, 1911 ... ... ... ... 17,717.
Population estimated to middle of last year (Registrar
General)—
1916. 1917. 1918. 1919.
For Birth Rate ... 18,691 19,345 20,782 20,828
For Death Rate ... 17,179 17,354 18,548 19,994
Physical Features and General Character of the
District.
Area of District.—This is officially given as
being 3,046 acres, or as 3,031, exclusive of water.
The shape is practically a square with a long
protruding tongue stretching between Chessington
and Claygate. It includes what is known as
Surbiton proper or the original area as defined in
the Surbiton Commissioners Act of 1885. To this
has now been added, in 1905, districts that until
then formed part of the area administered by the
Kingston Rural Sanitary Authority, viz., Tolworth
originally part of the Parish of Long Ditton, Hook
and Southborough.
Boundaries.-—Un the North by the Borough
of Ivingston-upon-Thames, on the- North-West by