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Statistics and Social Conditions
of the Area.
Area (in acres) 3,764
Registrar-General's estimate of Resident Population,
1936 64,000
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1936) according to
Rate Books 19,252
Rateable Value (1936) £789,167
Sum represented by a penny rate (1936) £3,232
Conditions during 1936 did not vary to any appreciable extent
from those of the previous year. The nutritional standard as
evidenced by the children attending the welfare centres and also
the school children, appears to continue satisfactory. Poverty still
exists and with it a certain degree of malnutrition. The milk-inschools
scheme and also the various measures undertaken by the
Borough Council through the Maternity Department, do much to
combat this degree of under-nourishment among the younger
members of the population, while the Southgate Social Service
Council also plays its part in alleviating those cases of distress
which are brought to its notice.
There can be little doubt that Southgate's problems in this
direction are minor compared with those of many industrial
districts, a happy fact for which those who helped to fashion the
Southgate of to-day cannot be too highly praised. Our nutritional
standard is on the whole extremely satisfactory; we have no serious
occupational or industrial factors with which to contend; our
amenities are numerous and varied. In short, there is every reason
to believe that the coming generation is being given an excellent
start in the life which lies ahead.
Meteorology.—The total rainfall recorded by the Council's
rain-gauge in Broomfield Park measured 25.88 inches during 1936,
the daily average being 0.07 inches. The greatest fall in 24 hours
occurred on November 11th when 0.92 inches were recorded. The
total number of days on which no rain fell was 184.
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