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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-1938 90,480.
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1938) according to Rate Books—
9,627 dwelling houses, 3,367 maisonetted and divided houses,
4,558 separate flats.
Rateable value (at 1st April, 1938) £1,574,088.
Sum represented by a penny rate £6,237.
With the exception of public open spaces, and of the extensive
gardens and grounds of a relatively few remaining large houses, the
Borough has been built-over for several years. The practice continues
of pulling down large houses with extensive gardens as they become
vacant and of erecting blocks of flats on the site. This helps to
account for the number of new dwellings which have been provided
in the Borough, as each newly erected flat is deemed to be a separate
dwelling. A decrease of 60 in the number of dwelling houses was due
to the division of houses into flats and maisonettes or to their
demolition in order to make way for the erection of blocks of flats;
and an increase of separate assessments of 197 was due to the division
of houses.

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 1938, 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 863 in March to 1140 in November, and the unemployed women
from 277 in July to 354 in October and November. Calculated upon