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Lowest minimum temperature
recorded 21 degrees on 13th
March.
Lowest grass minimum
temperature 17 degrees on 1st Jan.
and 2nd and 13th
March.
Occupations and Unemployment.
The Registrar General's tabulation of the results of
the Census taken in 1931 with regard to occupations is
not yet available. The figures published in my Report
of 1930 (page 8) will probably change in proportion as
the population has increased.
The unemployment figures for the Borough still
rank high on comparison with past years, but in comparing
total figures one must bear in mind the relationship
to increased population, and on this basis of calculation
there is a slight percentage decrease for 1932 in
comparison with 1931.
Acknowledgment is due to the Manager of the
Employment Exchange for kindly supplying the following
particidars:—
(1) Recorded unemployment at the end of December,
1932:—
Men, 18 years and over 958
Women, 18 years and over 154
(2) The highest figure reached in 1932 on 23rd
J anuary:—
Men 1203
Women 275
A higher figure was reached during a frost period
and for obvious reasons this figure is not shown.
Population.
The Registrar General gives the mid-year estimate
of population as 46,800, an increase of only 1,452 over
the Census of 1931. The rate books at the end of the
year 1932 show 11,711 inhabited houses, and if we take