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Annual Report of
The Medical Officer of Health
for 1936
Public Health Department,
2, Shalston Villas,
Surbiton.
July, 1937.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Surbiton.
Ladies and Gentemen,
I have pleasure in submitting my fifteenth
Annual Report and the first for the Borough of
Surbiton.
The most important feature during the year
was the granting of a Charter to Surbiton by His
Majesty King Edward VIII, dated 1st July, 1936,
and presented to the Charter Mayor, Councillor H.
S. Durbin, by His Majesty's Lieutenant of Surrey
(Colonel the Lord Ashcombe, C.B.), on 16th
September, 1936.
The increase in the population of Surbiton
continues, and further flats and houses were
erected, chiefly by private enterprise, to accommodate
this increase. The population according
to the Registrar General is 42, 610 an increase of
2,590 on the previous year. This is a mid-year
figure, and is used in arriving at the various vital
data. The estimated figure at 31st December,
1936, is 44,200.
The number of inhabited houses has increased
from 12,007 to 12,771. The number of new
houses erected during the year showed a decrease