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GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area (in acres) 3,895
Population.
Census of 1931 77,652
Estimated by the Registrar-General for the mid-year 1933 86,540
Number of inhabited houses and tenements at the end of 1933 18,695
Rateable Value, 1st April, 1933 £469,939
Estimated product of a rate of one penny in the £ for the year
ending 31st March, 1934 £1,920
Rates in the £ for the year ending March 31st, 1934 12/8
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
The District is one of London's dormitories; a few factories have been
put up during the year, but the increased number of persons locally
employed is more than balanced by the increase in population due to the
building of new houses, and whose inhabitants are engaged elsewhere
than in the District.
The extent of Unemployment may be estimated by the following
figures relating (1) to the municipal milk supply, (2) the number of free
dinners given to school children, and (3) figures kindly given me by the
Director of Public Assistance:—
(1) Municipal Milk Supply:—
Number of pints granted at ¼ cost during 1932 83,762
Ditto during 1933 88,725
(2) Number of Free Dinners given:—
During 1931 56,752
Ditto for the year 1932 112,908
Ditto for the year 1933 120,088
(3) Figure re Out-Relief:—
Cases. Amount.
For the year 1931 3,010 £42,384
For the year 1932 4,249 £61,383
For the year 1933
Ordinary out-relief 1,982 £31,897
Unemployed out-relief 2,452 £29,701
Total for the year 1933 4,434 £61,598
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