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Statistics and Social Conditions of the Borough.
Area (in acres) 2,265 (including 12 acres covered by water).
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, mid-1937 90,690.
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1937) according to Rate Books—
9,687 dwelling houses, 3,170 maisonetted and divided houses,
4,140 separate flats.
Rateable value (at 1st April, 1937) £1,545,147.
Sum represented by a penny rate £6,438 2s. 3d.
Extent of Unemployment.
I am indebted to the Chief Officer of Public Assistance of the
London County Council for the following information relating to the
year 1937, which was extracted from the periodical returns received
by the County Council from the Statistical Branch of the Ministry
of Labour:—The number of men registered as unemployed varied
from 690 in August to 872 in January, and the unemployed women
from 209 in September to 319 in February. Calculated upon the
number of insured people in the Borough, the lowest number was
70 per cent. in September and the highest 93 in January.

Crude Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population—116
Death Rate Comparability Factor (C.F.) = 094.
Adjusted Death Rate =
Crude Death Rate X C.F. = 116 X 094 = 109.
Since the population of all areas are not similarly constituted as
regards the proportions of their sex and age group components, their
Crude Death Rates (deaths per 1,000 population) cannot be accepted
as valid comparative measures of the mortalities experienced by the