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SECTION A.—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL
CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH.
Area.
4,869 acres.
Population.
Registrar General's
Estimate midyear,
88,780.
New Dwellings Erected.
Houses 529
Relative figures for previous years.
Population—Mid-Year. New Houses Erected.
1931 (Census) 33,150 1945 2
1935 59,970 1946 82+ 64 rebuilt
1940 77,670 1947 199+216 rebuilt
1945 75,040 1948 334+ 286 rebuilt
1950 89,410 1949 138+ 73 rebuilt
1951 (Census) 88,420 1950 102+ 15 rebuilt
1952 88,160 1951 319
1953 87,990 1952 355
1954 88,180 1953 265
1954 503
Number of inhabited houses at end of 1955
(according to Rate Books) approximately 27,443
Rateable Value £695,649
Sum represented by a penny rate £2,695
Unemployment. Men Women Boys Girls Total
December 31st, 1954 167 118 19 13 317
December 31st, 1955 120 86 13 9 228
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 has
increased considerably, housing shortages, at present, constitute
the main barrier to the health of a relatively large
number of its citizens. The housing programme has been
accelerated as much as possible and it can only be hoped
that the housing position of the Borough will gradually
rcach the optimum standards for which the Council are
striving.
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