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borough. The residents in the borough suffer to a
considerable extent from unemployment and casual
labour, as is evidenced by the following figures kindly
supplied to me by the Clerk to the Bethnal Green
Board of Guardians:—
Date
Total Number
of Persons
relieved in
their own homes
including wives
and children
Unem.
Others|
Persons Relieved in Institutions
Persons suffering
from sickness or
bodily infirmity
Persons suffering
from mental
infirmity
Persons
not suffering
from
sickness,
bodily or
mental
infirmity
on 1st
Jan.
1925 3697 1246 827 748 462
1926 5462 2460 861 746 513
1927 8968 3238 814 735 470
At my suggestion the Clerk to the Guardians has
also furnished me with the following note concerning
the Guardians' care of children :—
"With regard to the work at the Leytonstone
Children's Homes, it is somewhat difficult to speak, but
generally one may say that within the past two or three
years the dietary has been altered so as to provide the
children with food best calculated to promote their growth
and general well-being, and the buildings themselves have
been remodelled. In the Infants' Departments children
are now admitted from 1 year of age, and in some few
cases even earlier, and the most up-to-date methods are
employed in their care, including the glazing of the
windows with Vitaglass, which permits the sunlight to
come through in its most beneficient form."
I have also obtained the following statistics concerning
unemployment, by the courtesy of the Managers
of thelocalemploymentexchanges (Hackney, Shoreditch
and Stepney), which are roughly indicative of the state
of employment among Bethnal Green residents:—