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9
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA.
Area (in acres) 12,558
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population,
mid-year, 1935 144,280
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1935) according
to Rate Books 41,265
Rateable Value (April 1st, 1936) £1,654,372
Sum represented by a penny rate (1935/36) £6,140
Social Conditions of Inhabitants.
See Annual Report for the year 1934.
There is little unemployment in the district, exceedingly little
amongst Harrow residents who have been in the district for some
time. The ordinary winter register for unemployed males of the
district is about 1,800, a figure which falls to 750 or 1,000 in the
summer, the reduction being due to the engagement of employees
in the building trade. During weather in the winter unfavourable
for building operations there might be a rise to an additional
one-third or even one-half the winter standard. There are no
skilled men unemployed in the building, engineering or allied
trades, practically all the unemployed being unskilled men who
have come to friends or who have of their own accord come from
distressed areas. The figures for unemployed women vary from
250 in winter to 160 in summer. These are chiefly young married
women who are "in and out," not being on the register long.
There is practically no juvenile unemployment in the district.
None of the local forms of employment prejudicially affects
the health of the workers.