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Beckenham 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beckenham]
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NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Details of the area and character of the district have been given
in previous reports. The estimate of the population at June, 1937,
based on information possessed by the Department, is 70,000, and
and the Registrar General's estimate is 69,580.
UNEMPLOYMENT AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.
The unemployment in the district is shown by the figures
supplied by the Ministry of Labour ; the number of Beckenham
residents registered as unemployed on the 31st December, 1937, was
266, as compared with 221 the previous year. The figures for West
Wickham were 89.
The Kent County Council Public Assistance Department state
that the total amount of out-relief given in Beckenham and West
Wickham during the year was £8,802, and that 422 cases were
admitted for treatment to the Farnborough Hospital.
METEOROLOGY.
The following observations, taken at the Recreation Ground,
Croydon Road, have been kindly supplied by the Borough Surveyor.
1937 METEOROLOGY
| Month | Self-registering | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean Reading of Barometer at 9 a.m. | thermometer | Rainfall total, per month (inches) | ||
| Max. in Air | Min. in Air | |||
| January | 29.71 | 54 | 28 | 4.31 |
| February | 29.47 | 57 | 31 | 4.14 |
| March | 29.50 | 60 | 25 | 3.62 |
| April | 29.73 | 65 | 31 | 2.31 |
| May | 29.94 | 83 | 40 | 2.40 |
| June | 30.03 | 87 | 46 | 2.15 |
| July | 29.97 | 86 | 50 | .41 |
| August | 30.03 | 88 | 50 | 1.25 |
| September | 29.87 | 81 | 40 | 1.96 |
| October | 29.89 | 71 | 35 | 2.83 |
| November | 29.89 | 59 | 26 | 1.53 |
| December | 29.72 | 56 | 25 | 3.91 |
| Mean for year | 29.81 | 70.6 | 35.6 | (Total) 30.82 |
Borough Engineer and Surveyor's Department,
Town Hall, Beckenham.
14th February, 1938.
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