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Method of Computing Net Family Income.
TOTAL INCOME calculated thus:—
Earnings of children under 15 years of age not to be
reckoned.
(a) From Earnings.
Parents or guardians weekly earnings, the average for the
last four weeks being taken if variable.
(b) From Lodgers.
Children over 15 years of age who are earning, living at
home, and contributing to the family income to be reckoned as
lodgers.
Payments from lodgers. Proportion to be reckoned as
income.
Up to 12/- per week Nil
Over 12/- per week 50% of surplus over 12/-
(c) From Sub-letting.
The whole of the amount received to be reckoned as income.
(d) From Other Sources.
Any pension; unemployment benefit; sickness benefit; public
assistance, or income from any other source to be counted as
income.
From the above TOTAL INCOME the following DEDUCTIONS
to be made:—
(a) Rent, (including the full payment made to a Building
Society, and rates if paid by the applicant).
(b) Fares to and from employment of husband and wife if
working.
(c) Compulsory insurances (National Health and
ment).
NET FAMILY INCOME is the above TOTAL INCOME
minus the above TOTAL DEDUCTIONS.
NET INCOME PER HEAD is the NET FAMILY INCOME
divided by the number of parents and children (re. expectant
mother include the unborn child) living at home (not being
lodgers).
MATERNITY HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
The number of births notified in the Borough during the
year corrected for transfers into and out of the district was:—
(a) Live Births 1,789
(b) Still Births 57
(c) Total 1,846
The following table gives the notifications, together by whom
notified, for the last four years:—
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