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SUTTON URBAN DISTRICT.
Area, 1,836 Statute Acres.
Number of Inhabited Houses at Census 1881, 1,537; at Census 1891, 2,200;
at Census 1891, 2,976.
Population (exclusive of South Metropolitan District School) at Census 1881, 8,700 ;
at Census 1891, 12,000; at Census 1901, 15,486.
Medical Officer's report for the Year 1906.
I.— Physical Features.
Sutton in its main direction lies almost due north and south, the High
Street continuous on the north with the London Load and on the South with the
Brighton Road, intersecting the district in this direction, which is about 2¾ miles
long between the boundaries. From east to west the town is divided by the
Carshalton Road and Cheam Road, and at this point is about a mile in width. The
whole district has an area of 1,836 acres. The southern portion of Sutton is
beautifully situated, sloping up to the noted breezy Banstead Downs, attaining a
height of about 300 feet above sea level, and having a subsoil of Chalk. The
northern portion also rises from the lower part of the town about Sutton Green (117
feet from sea level) to Sutton Common and Benhilton, both of which are prettily
situated and favourite residential districts. This part of the town is mainly situated
on the London clay, but dividing this from the chalk, which may be roughly said to
extend to a line drawn east to west, about the level of West Street, are two narrow
strips of Thanet sand and plastic clay (Woolwich and Reading beds) an outcrop of
the Lower London tertiaries. The natural or surface water drainage is mainly to the
Pyl Brook, a small tributary of the Beverley Brook, and to a small extent on the
east side into a brook running into the Wandle. On the north side Sutton is
bounded by Carshalton and Morden, on the south by the parish of Banstead, on the
east by Carshalton, and on the west by Cheam and Morden.
II.— Vital Statistics: Births and Deaths.
1. Population.— The natural increase of population or the excess of births
over deaths during the year 1906 was 262. The number of inhabited houses, which
at the last Census in 1901 was 2,976, is at the present time about 3,700, so that we may
assume that the population is also being still further increased by the influx of new
residents. For the purposes of these statistics the gross population will be estimated
at 17,983, as compared with 17,512 the previous year, and deducting therefrom the
residents at the Metropolitan Asylum Board's Ringworm School (539) and at the
Belmont Asylum (224), the net population of Sutton is 17,200, as compared with
16,800 in the previous year.
2. Births.— The births of 434 children were registered during the year, 223
boys and 211 girls, giving a birth-rate of 25.2 per thousand inhabitants, as compared
with 23.5 the previous year, and an average of 23.4 during the preceding 10 years.
The birth-rate in the whole of England and Wales during 1906 was 27.0.
3. Deaths.— The deaths of 226 persons were registered as having occurred
within the district during the year, of which 68 were of persons not belonging to the
parish, viz.: 64 at Banstead Asylum, 2 at the Metropolitan Asylum Board's
Ringworm School, and 2 at the Sutton Hospital, whilst 14 deaths took place of
parishioners removed for treatment to institutions outside the district, nine at