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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, 1938,
based on information possessed by the Department, is 71,500, and
the Registrar General's estimate is 70,590.
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, 1938, was
105, as compared with 266 the previous year. The figures for West
Wickham accounted for approximately half the total.
The Kent County Council Public Assistance Department state
that out-relief was given in Beckenham and West Wickham during
the year to 50 cases, and that 439 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 Engineer.