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Lowest grass minimum
temperature 17 degrees 011 28th Jan.
and 10th and 16th
December.
Occupations and Unemployment.
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 recorded unemployment figures for the Borough
at the end of the year 1933 show a decrease of 110
compared with the figures for the same period 1932. In
the absence of knowledge of the number of employable
persons in the area, it is somewhat difficult to gauge the
degree of unemployment. Taking population as the basis
of calculation it is interesting to note that there is a
decrease for 1933 compared with 1932.
The manager of the Employment Exchange has
kindly supplied the following particulars:—
1. Recorded unemployment at the end of
December, 1933:
Men (18 years and over) 884
Women (18 years and over) 118
2. The highest figures reached in 1933:
(a) Men 1276 on 23/1/33.
(b) Women 243 on 20/5/33.
Population.
The Registrar General's mid-year figure, 48,270, gives
a continued and even increase over the previous year. The
rather unusually rapid progress in building has I believe
made this figure an under estimate. On the basis of the
census figure of the number of persons per occupied
house (4.2) and the number of dwellings on the rate books
at 31st December, 1933 (12,170), give the population at
the end of the year as 51,114.
The population figure is of some importance in the
calculation of the various rates of vital statistics, and these