[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Elstree R.D.C.

  • Elstree (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Elstree R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION A STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA Area: 8,339 acres Population, 1921 Census ... 4.513 Population, 1931 Census Registrar-General’s estimate of 6,400 (a) resident population mid-1946 (b) average population appropriate to the calculation of death rates 11,140 Number of inhabited houses | Elstree 1,992 (end of 1946) according ] Shenley 580 2,647 to Rate Books [ Ridge 75 Rateable Value (1st April, 1947) £117>537 Estimated product of a penny rate (1st April 1947) £500 SOCIAL CONDITIONS The District comprises the parishes of Shenley and Ridge which are chiefly agricultural and residential, and Elstree. In Elstree the principal occupations are industrial, more par- ticularly the film studios and allied industries, photographic processing, knitting mills, electrical accessories and light engin- eering. Elstree is to some extent residential, particularly on the west side of the L.M.S. Railway line. On the East side of the L.M.S. Station, in the Boreham Wood portion of the parish, considerable development has taken place. A number of new factories were erected immediately prior to and during the war. Various types of industry are represented, including the manu- facture of cosmetics and pharmaceutical chemicals, petrol tanks, pistons, plastics, ventilation equipment as well as printing and light engineering works.