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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bromley 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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Meteorology.
I am indebted to the Borough Engineer for the
following details extracted from the. records kept by his
Department at the Climatological Station at Church
House Grounds for the year 1938:
Total rainfall 19.78 inches
Mean maximum daily temperature 59.5° F.
Mean minimum daily temperature 44.3° F.
Highest maximum temperature
recorded 84° F. on
6th August
Lowest minimum temperature recorded 20° F. on 21st
December
Lowest grass minimum temperature
recorded 20° F. on 18th
December
Unemployment.
The Manager of the Employment Exchange has
kindly furnished the following details: —
1. Recorded unemployment at the end of December,
1938: —
| (a) Men | 1173 |
| (b) Women | 149 |
| 1322 |
Highest figures reached during 1938 :—
(a) Men 1219 (on 12/12/1938)
(b) Women 171 (on 21/11/1938)
The Manager of the Exchange remarks : —'' There
have been no outstanding features of unemployment in
the area during the year, but the curtailing of speculative
building has contributed to the numbers of workPeople
unemployed in the Building Industry. The
severe weather experienced in the last two weeks of the
year caused almost complete stoppage of building
operat ions, but the effect on the live register was partially
offset by the numbers of men engaged for temporary
Christmas postal work."