[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashford U.D.C.

  • Ashford (Kent, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1961
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Credit: [Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashford U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION A. STATISTICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE DISTRICT FOR 1961 AREA 5,719 acres REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S ESTIMATE OF: The Resident Population NUMBER OF INHABITED HOUSES ACCORDING TO THE RATE BOOKS' NUMBER OF BUSINESS PREMISES RATEABLE VALUE SUM REPRESENTED BY A PENNY RATE 28,140 9,316 1,079 £419,606 £1,710 1 SOCIAL CONDITIONS Ashford is both an agricultural and an industrial town end a business and shopping centre for the large rural community which surrounds it. It merits importance by containing the largest agricultural market in Kent and in halving a railway junction where five lines converge, associated with which is a Carriage and Wagon Works, and Electric Carriage Repa.ir and Inspection Shops. There is also a number of other Factories, including Tyre.Works, Iron Foundry, Printing Works, Agricultural and Vehicle Repair Shops, Flour Mills, Marine and Industrial Works, Light and Electrica.1 Engineering, Ordnance Depot, Bread., Cereal Products and Jam Factory, and a large Canning and dried foods factory. During the year the Council's plans for industrial expansion (and to meet the vacuum created by the closure of she cycle works and rim down at the locomotive works) bore fruit in the establishment of several new factories, including those of a cosmetic manufacturer, glass scientific instrument firm, a furniture makers and twc more light engineering concerns. At present there is little unemployment in this District and in genera„l apart from the shortage of houses, social conditions are satisfactory.