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SECTION A.—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL
CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH.
Area.
4,869 acres.
Population. New Dwellings Erected.
Registrar General's Houses 102
Estimate mid- Demolished Houses
year, 1950 89,410 Rebuilt 15
Relative figures for previous years.
Population—Mid-Year. New Houses Erected.
1931 (Census) 33,150 1,165
1939 80,110 1,002
1940 77,670 113
1941 72,080 Nil
1942 77,020 5
1943 76,740 5
1944 71,130 Nil
1945 75,040 2
1946 85,820 82 + 64 rebuilt.
1947 87,670 199 + 216 rebuilt.
1948 88,920 334 + 286 rebuilt.
1949 89,270 138 + 73 rebuilt.
Number of inhabited houses at end of 1950
(according' to Rate Books) approximately 25,772
Rateable Value £638,064
Sum represented by a penny rate £2,626
Unemployment. Men Women Boys Girls Total
December 31st, 1949 210 55 15 17 297
December 31st, 1950 275 76 6 18 375
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 hoxising 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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