[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton UDC 1920].

  • Sutton (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1921]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton UDC 1920]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUTTON URBAN DISTRICT. Medical Officer’s Report for the Year 1920. POPULATION. 1911 (census), gross, 21,270. Net, 19,535. Average number of persons per house—4.88. Estimate of the Registrar-General for the year 1920 : 22,093. SITUATION. Sutton is situated 11 miles south of Whitehall in the watershed of the Thames in the north-east portion of the County of Surrey, the centre of the town being a little above the line where the chalk of the London Basin comes to the surface to form the North Downs. A narrow band of the London Tertiaries, running due east and west, appears between the chalk and the clay. Towards the north and north-west and on the clay is the lowest land—81 feet above sea level—and through it runs the Pyl Brook, receiving the chief part of the surface water of the whole district and the outflow from the sewage works. The rest of the surface water drains into a small brook discharging on the north-east into the Wandle. Further north, where the London and Brighton Road crosses the border, the ground rises to 147 feet. This is the most rural part. Southwards, on the chalk, towards Banstead Downs, there is a gradual ascent to 293 feet.