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STATISTICAL SUMMARY, ETC.
Area of the District in acres 3,014
Population (Registrar.General's estimate, Midsummer, 1937) 146,200
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1937) according to Rate
Books 30,801
Rateable value £968,332
Sum represented by a penny rate £3,874
Social Conditions, including the Chief Industries carried on in
the area.
The Annual Report for 1935 contains particulars of the social conditions
of the district; these have not altered.
The Extent of Unemployment.
The state of unemployment may be gauged from the following
figures, supplied from the local Labour Exchange :—
The total number of persons normally in regular employment who
were registered at Tottenham Employment Exchange as wholly unemployed,
December, 1937, was 4,430. In addition, 196 persons were
registered as temporarily stopped. There were also registered as
unemployed 88 men who normally are engaged in casual employment,
making a grand total registered of 4,714.

Birth Rate per 1,000 estimated population 13.5
Stillbirths {Males 31
{Females 33 Total 64
Stillbirth Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 31.4