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Public Health Department,
Radnor House,
Twickenham,
March 23rd, 1915.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Fifth Annual
Report on the health and sanitary condition of the district. The
following points appear to call for special mention:—
Population, Census 1911, 29,376.
Estimated population, June 1914, 32,000.
Birth rate, per 1,000 living, 24.4.
Death rate, per 1,000 living, 12.7.
Infantile Mortality, per 1,000 births, 80.5.
Total Rainfall, 26.47 inches.
NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Physical Features.—The district is 2,477 acres in area,
inclusive of that portion covered by water. It is bounded on the
north by Heston and Isleworth, on the south by Teddington, on
the east by the Thames, which separates it from Surrey, and on the
west by Hanworth. Twickenham stands upon a porous subsoil of
gravel and sand from twelve to twenty feet in depth, the gravels
which lie on the London clay being efficiently drained by the rivers
Thames and Crane, which run almost parallel throughout the
district.
The addition to the population produced by the advent of the
motor 'bus has been maintained. A considerable number of adult
males are absent from the district on active service, but these were