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2. Highest figure reached in 1935.
(a) Men 876 14/1/1935
(b) Women 192 14/1/1935
It is usual for the peak figure to be reached about
January.
A very fair estimate would be that 90 per cent. of
the unemployed are Bromley residents.
The employment position during the year was good.
The figures steadily fell from January and remained at
about the 500 mark from March to December, only varying
a little over or under that figure. It should be borne in
mind that this does not mean that 500 men have been
regularly unemployed during the year, but that with the
exception of about 50, the remainder have been in and out
of work and that the actual men unemployed changes from
week to week. The position, therefore, is really better
than is represented by the figure.
Occupations.
On page 15 of my Annual Report for 1934 will be
found full details of occupations within the Borough
according to the Census returns of 1931.
Population.
The Registrar General gives the mid-year 1935 figure
of population for Bromley 56,200, a figure which very
closely approximates to the figure obtained through the
Housing Survey carried out in January, 1936, when a
figure of 50,334 was obtained. A report on this Housing
Survey is submitted later in this Report. It shows also
the average size of family is below the average of the 1931
Census, 3.61 compared with 3.70, and that with the
development of housing schemes in close proximity to
hondon one finds that the population is still in a state of
change. Approximately 20 per cent. of houses change
their tenants each year.
As most vital statistics are based on the population
figure the importance of a reasonably correct figure is
obvious; at the same time it must be realised that we are
dealing with a comparatively small number of persons,
which, from year to year, change in age and sex groups.
With this fact in view an adjustment figure of .97 is
given in order to correct the crude figure of mortality