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GENERAL.
Shoreditch is a district of irregular shape, of which the two longest
diagonals are approximately one and a half miles. Its boundaries are as
follows :—Hackney, N. & N.E.; Bethnal Green, E.; Stepney, S.E.; City, S.;
Finsbury, W.; Islington, N. & N.W. The average height of the Borough
above sea level is 60 feet.
The subsoil of the Borough is London clay with many pockets of gravel.
Some areas are covered to a depth of three feet with a good quality sandy
gravel on this subsoil.
Refuse material, probably from the City and other adjacent areas, which
has been deposited on this subsoil during the last 100 years or more, now
has a depth of approximately five feet.
The Meteorological Table for London, deduced from observations at
Greenwich under the superintendence of the Astronomer Royal, issued by
the Registrar-General for 1933, shows a rainfall for the year of 430 millimetres.
This figure is 329 millimetres below the average for the thirty-five
years, 1881-1915.
The daily mean number of hours of sunshine during the year in London
was 421. This figure was 0 09 hours less than the average daily mean for
the 35 years 1881-1915.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
I have to thank the Director of Statistics of the Ministry of Labour for
the following tables which show improvement in the unemployment figures at
the end of the year:—