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BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Walworth Road, S.E.
Dear Sir, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour of submitting for your consideration my thirtysixth
Annual Report which deals with the vital statistics and general
sanitary work for the year 1922.
It will be seen that there has been a decrease in the birth-rate of 2.9,
whilst the death-rate has increased 1.2 per 1,000.
The infantile mortality rate has considerably decreased, from 90 in
1921, to 79 for the present year.
The deaths from Measles were very numerous, being 145. This
number has not been exceeded for the last 12 years. My report on
Measles will be found on pages 58 and 59.
There has also been an increase in the deaths from Whooping
Cough, the number, with the exception of the year 1918, exceeding that
of any year for the last 10 years.
Primary Pneumonia and Influenzal Pneumonia were responsible for
a large number of deaths.
Necessitous children and expectant and nursing mothers received free
milk to the extent of £2,300. The milk scale for necessitous persons
has been slightly reduced, and the income must not exceed 35s. for
parents with 1 child, 40s. for 2 children, 45s. for 4 children, aud 50s.
over 4 children.
The Maternity and Child Welfare work has progressed exceedingly
well during the year as will be seen by the statistics set out in my report
pages 65 to 77. All Saints' Centre has returned to its old quarters at the
Parish Room, Sunrey Square. St. Mary's Centre which was a Voluntary
one, holding its sessions at St. John's Institute, Larcom street, has been
taken over as a Municipal Centre with its home at St. Mary's Parochial
Hall, Kennington Park Road. A subsidy has been given by the Council
of rather more than £200 a year to St. John's Voluntary Centre, Larcom
Street.
I have advised that the Dental Clinic held in the Parochial Hall,
Lorrimore Street, which has been in existence for more than a year
should be discontinued as being unnecessary, on account of the opening
of a new Dental Clinic by the Newington United Charities in Penrose
Street, and the facilities that are given for dental treatmeut at the various
large hospitals in or near our Borough. The Dental Clinic is an expensive
affair both in regard to money spent and also the services given by
the staff,