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These discrepancies arise through various reasons.
For example, the Registrar General's statistical period
may not exactly coincide with the calendar year covered
for local statistics, and the allocation of the number of
births and stillbirths made by the Registrar General
is extracted from the returns of local registrars after
deducting those occurring within the area but with
residences elsewhere, and adding those occurring elsewhere
but ordinarily resident within the area. The same
applies to all statistics issued by the Registrar General
and makes any preliminary statistical statement issued
during the year incorrect. To this there is an obvious
remedy; there should be closer co-operation between the
local sanitary authority and the authority responsible
for the registration of births, deaths, marriages, vaccination,
etc. The Local Government Act, 1929, made an
effort in this direction of unified administration, but has
failed in operation in those large areas of local government
such as is Bromley.
Social Conditions.
There is little to add to my previous report on the
social circumstances of the area. Development of the
town as a pleasant residential district goes on apace year
by year, and the year 1931 has seen no cessation in this
respect. It is to be noted that the few remaining
sections of residential property in the main thoroughfares
of the town are giving way to new business premises.
Bromley is so readily accessible to the small towns and
villages in the adjacent rural area that its potentialities
as a lucrative shopping centre continues to attract the
shop builder.
The future development of the Borough is almost
entirely confined to residential and shop premises under
the Town Planning scheme which has been prepared, the
density of buildings in the undeveloped area beinar
limited as follow:—