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9
GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area (exclusive of tidal water and foreshore), 6,556 acrcs.
Population Census 1921 9,127
Registrar-General's Estimate 1929 (mid-year) 79,970
Local Estimate 1930 (mid-year) 90,500
No. of structurally separate dwellings (Census 1921) 1,871
No. of families (Census 1921) 1.957
Rateable value (mid-year 1930) . £368,918
Sum represented by a penny rate £1,490
Occupations of Inhabitants.
Little progress has been made in the past year towards the
creation of employment in the district. Most adult males find
their employment'outside the area, largely in London ; though a
large proportion are engaged on the transport services. Actual
unemployment is not as serious a feature as in some other districts,
the chief disability from which the area suffers being the relatively
low level of available income. The average resident lias a low
gross income. This is depleted by the high rent and, in many)
eases, by the cost of transport to and from the place of occupation.
Until local employment is available, the question of this transport
must remain a serious factor weighing against the advantages of
the creation of an Estate such as this. Apart from the actual loss
to family income by transport charges, the time spent daily, under
conditions not conductive to health, is a marked disadvantage.

Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth
from sepsis 5
other causes 9