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Unemployment.
I am indebted to the Manager of the Employment Exchange
for the following information:—
(1) Recorded unemployment at the Exchange on 31st
December, 1930:
Adult Males 602
„ Females 192
Total 794
(2) The highest normal figure reached in 1930:
Males 635
Females 192
The figures are much heavier than those in 1929, and
are of course accounted for by the general trade depression
throughout the world.
Population.
The Census of 1921 gave the population as 35,052.
The Registrar General estimated the population two years
ago (mid-year) as 41,840. The Census figures for 1931 are
not yet available, but taking the number of occupied houses
in December, 1930, and allowing a low average number
in the family at 4, we get the population figure as 43,412.
This is of course a purely estimated figure and is not used
in the calculation of the vital rates, which have been calculated
on the figure given for mid-year 1929. The rates
are thus higher than the true rates to be calculated on the
Census figure.
Being within the Greater London area, Bromley
population is in a state of flux. The extension of building
estates in areas of a rural character naturally affects not
only the population but the type of inhabitant of the area.
Bromley is not so largely affected as are neighbouring
authorities, but during the last ten years the changes are
obvious. What the future ten years will bring forward
is unknown, but a Town Planning Scheme which includes
four houses to the acre must make Bromley always a highly