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SECTION A.—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL
CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH.
Area.
4,869 acres.
Population.
Registrar General's
Estimate midyear,
1948 88,920
New Dwellings Erected.
Houses 334
Demolished Houses
Rebuilt 286
Relative figures for previous years.
Population—Mid-Year.
1931 (Census) 33,150
1938 (R.G.'s Estimate) 77,020
1939 80,110
1940 77,670
1941 72,080
1942 77,020
1943 76,740
1944 71,130
1945 75,040
1946 85,820
1947 87,670
New Houses Erected.
1,165
1,170
1,002
113
Nil
5
5
Nil
2
82+64
Demolished houses rebuilt.
199+216 rebuilt.
Number of inhabited houses at end of 1948
(according to Rate Books) approximately 26,180
Rateable Value £617,055
Sum represented by a penny rate £2,450
Unemployment. Men Women Boys Girls Total
December 31st, 1947 307 33 8 11 359
December 31st, 1948 258 59 11 7 335
Social Conditions and Amenities.
The Borough of Bexley continues to be a healthy
residential district and is specially favoured in that it has
ample open spaces and recreational facilities for its
inhabitants. Like other districts, however, that suffered
severe bombing during the war, and whose population is
tending all the time to increase, housing shortages, at
present, constitute the main barrier to health for a
relatively large number of its citizens. The housing programme
is being accelerated as much as possible and it
can only be hoped that, as the momentum increases, the
housing position of the Borough will gradually reach the
optimum standards for which the Council are striving.
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