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Greenford 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenford, UDC]

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administrative, instead of, as hitherto, for registration (or
Poor Law) areas.
The death of residents dying in other Districts, as well
as those of non-residents registered therein, and the births
occurring in workhouses and lying-in hospitals have been,
and will in future be, allocated to their proper districts,
in the case of births to the area in which the parents reside.
Population.
According to the Preliminary Census Report for 1911
the population was—
Greenford Ward 521
Greenford Green Ward 322
Perivale 95
West Twyford 126
Total 1064
an increase of 245 on that of the Census of 1901 (which was
819). This figure at the Census of 1891 was 660.
Your Surveyor reports to nie that there are at present
the following number of occupied houses in the District:—
Greenford 201
Perivale 18
West Twyford 13
Total 232
The only institution for the reception of the sick is that
carried on by the Alexian Brothers at Twyford Abbey, where
there is accommodation for the reception of sixty infirm,
aged, and convalescent gentlemen.
There were four deaths of inmates of this Home during
the year, one occurring outside the District, viz., in the
Middlesex County Asylum, Wandsworth. This latter death
has teen allocated by the Registrar General to this District
though strictly speaking these inmates are not residents.
In only one case has the death been allocated to the proper
District, viz., Brixton.