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ANNUAL REPORT OP THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR 1951
Public Health Department,
2, Shalston Villas,
Surbiton.
August, 1952.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Surbiton.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am presenting my thirtieth Annual Report for Surbiton.
From perusal of the vital statistics which follow there is a
decrease of 140 in the population although the natural increase
is 184; this is in spite of the erection of, or conversion of
houses, giving 162 extra units of accommodation.
The birth rate shows an increase from 12.55 to 12.65.
There is however a decrease in the Infantile Mortality rate
from 26.31 to 20.21 per 1,000 live births which compares favourably
with that of England and Wales (29.6).
Under the Industrial Court Award it was decided by the Local
Authority that I should attend at the office for three notional
half days a week. This, in my opinion, is totally inadequate for
a town of this size and it is considerably less than I have been
doing for the past fifteen years.
Two Acts were introduced during the year namely the Rag Flock
and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951» and the Pet Animals Act,
1951.
STATISTICS
Area (in acres) 4,709
Population (June 1951) Registrar General's Estimate 61,090
Resident Population (Census 1951 60,675
Estimated number of separate habitable dwellings
(houses and flats) in the Borough at the end of
the year 17,782
Number of new houses erected during-the year:-
(a) By local authority 94
(b) By other local authorities (flats) 40
(c) By Metropolitan Water Board
(d) By private enterprise 31
(e) Rebuilt following destruction by enemy
action Nil
(f) Self contained flats provided by
conversion (private enterprise) 17
Rateable value at 1st April, 1951 £662,359
Sum represented by a penny rate £2,750
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