Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1929.

  • Chelsea (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1930
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1929. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Annual Report on the Health of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea. Year ending 31st December, 1929. SECTION I.—NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH. GENERAL STATISTICS. TABLE No. 1. Area (acres) 660 Population:— (Census, 1921) 63,700 (Estimated, 1929) 62,680 Number of Inhabited Houses, 1921 10,355 Number of families or separate occupiers, 1921 16,555 Rateable value, October, 1929 £1,090,014 Sum represented by a penny rate, October, 1929 £4,397 Physical Features and General Character of the Area.—The Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea, situated near the centre of the Metro polis, is bounded on the north by the Royal Borough of Kensington, on the west by the Borough of Fulham, on the east by the City of West minister, and on the south by the river Thames. It is a small compact borough, less than two miles in length by about three-quarters of a mile in width. Over nearly the whole area the soil consists of gravel and sand, highly permeable to water. In a small portion of the western side of the Borough there is a thin loamy deposit of brick earth resting upon the gravel. There is a narrow strip of alluvial deposit extending along the Embankment from Battersea Bridge westwards. The northern portion of the area is largely built over. The central zone comprises a number of pleasant squares occupied by people in affluent circumstances. The grounds of the Royal Hospital, with the river Thames and Battersea Park beyond, render the southern zone unusually open. Social Conditions.—The density of population (number of persons per acre), as shown by the 1921 Census, is 97, the corresponding figure for London, as whole, being 60. The density of population of each of the five Wards in the Borough is as follows:—Church Ward, 124; Stanley Ward, 122; Hans Town Ward, 93; Cheyne Ward, 83; Royal Hospital Ward, 59.