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Statistics and Social Conditions
of the Area
Area (in acres) 3,764
Registrar-General's Estimate of Resident Civilian
Population, 1953 72,110
Number of Inhabited Houses (end of 1953) according
to Rate Books 21,735
Rateable Value (1953) £942,703
Sum represented by a penny rate (1953) £3,833
There is little I can add to the remarks set out under this
leading in previous Reports. The character of the Borough has not
hanged over the past years. We are still a dormitory suburb, with
he peculiar problems associated with this type of district. We are
t least fortunate in that we know the nature of these problems,
ad are therefore able to prepare our policy accordingly. This does
ot mean, of course, that we can afford to stand still, while even
linor changes take place around us. Nothing is static, even in a
torough such as Southgate. Let us hope that stagnation, even a
lowing of the current, will ever be avoided. If we realise this fact,
ad constantly look ahead, we should be able to avoid the pitfalls
ito which one can so easily slip.
As I write these words, it is now almost exactly twenty-one
ears since Southgate received its Charter of Incorporation. If the
ext twenty-one years are as jealously guarded, as carefully
reasured as their immediate predecessors, all will indeed be well.
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