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5
1929

POPULATION.
The Registrar General estimates the population at the end
of June, 1929, to be 65,200, an increase of 330 on the estimated
population of 1928.
As the Census will be due before the issue of the next
Annual Report, it is unnecessary to enter further into the question
of the correctness or otherwise of the different estimates. Usually
the estimate of the Registrar General is more nearly correct than
that made by the officers of the Local Councils.
POOR RELIEF.
I am indebted to Mr. Harmsworth, the clerk of the Brentford
Board of Guardians, for the figures relating to Poor Relief.
The total amount of out-relief distributed by the Guardians in the
Borough was £5,875 13s. 8½d. No relief was given to unemployed
during the year except in sickness or urgent necessity, and this
was entered as ordinary relief.
The amount distributed in out-relief remains fairly constant
each year, but the amount given to unemployed persons has fallen
from over £15,000 in 1922 to nothing in the last two years. There
have been changes of administration to account for most of this
reduction, but in recent years the amount of unemployment has
been small, owing to the establishment of new factories in the
district.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE DISTRICT.
The physical features and general charactcr of the district
were described in the Survey Report of 1925.