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Social conditions.
Bromley as a wholly residential area has no industrial
or occupational conditions liable to exert adverse influence
on the health of the population.
METROLOGY.
The Borough Engineer has kindly supplied the following
details from records compiled in his Department:-
Year 1941.
Total rainfall 25.57 ins. '
Mean maximum daily temperature 57 dog. F.
Nean minimum daily temperature 42 deg. F.
Highest maximum temperature recorded (8.7.1941) 91 deg. F.
Lowest minimum temperature recorded (18.1.1941 &
19.2.1941) 20 deg. F.
Lowest grass minimum temperature recorded (17.1.41) 17 deg. F..
POPULATION.
The basis of all vital statistics is population, and it
is by census that a dependable figure can be obtained. A
census It taken, however, only once in ten years, and thus
the Very considerable chances that occur during the interconsal
period reuder our ??? of population very depondable,
expect during the two or three years after the cohsus.
It is not without some diffidence that one approaches
the problem of estimating the present population of the
Borough The call-up, conscription, evacuation and abnormal
movements of population must be taken into account when
concidering a figure,
The latest valuation assessment of inhabitable premises
is 16,930 and reckoning 3.61 persons per house gives a potential
Population of 61,117, which may be accepted as approximating
to the Post-war figure when conditions have reached a general
of settlement.
A more acceptable figure at the present time is 57,467
derived on the same calculation from the latest return of
15,919 inhabited houses according to the rate books, but this
makes no allowance for temporary absence of persons owing to
war condition and requirements.