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Hostel:
Warden — 1 Deputy Warden — 1
Chief Chiropodist:
E. F. Part, M.Ch.S., S.R.Ch.
Chiropodists: Full time—2; Sessional—Full time equivalent — 4
Home Help Service:
Principal Home Help Organiser:
Mrs. L. Nepean-Gubbins, M.R.S.H.
Area H.H.O. — 4 Assistant H.H.O. — 4
Home Helps — 576 Full time equivalent — 370
Miscellaneous:
Senior Environmental Visitor — 1 Environmental Visitors — 4
Domestic Staff:
Domestic staff of various categories — 80
VITAL STATISTICS. 1965
FOR THE NEW LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
Area of Borough (including area covered by water) 7,115 acres
Population (Registrar General's estimate mid-1965) 308,460
Number of inhabited houses 85,908
Rateable Value (April, 1965) £18,116,719
Sum represented by a penny rate £71,000
Births
Total Legitimate Illegitimate
Live Births—Male 2,935 2,600 335
Female 2,912 2,570 342
5,847 5,170 677
Still Births—Male 40 32 8
Female 48 46 2
88 78 10
Birth rate per 1,000 population 18.9
Number of deaths—all ages 3,740
Death rate per 1,000 population 12.1
Infantile Mortality
Deaths under 1 year 119
Infant deaths per 1,000 live births 20.4
Maternal Mortality
Deaths of women from diseases or accidents associated with
childbirth, including abortion 4
Maternal death rate per 1,000 total births 0.7
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