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7
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA.
Area (in acres) 12,558
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population,
mid-year, 1937 174,800
Number of inhabited houses including flats (end of
1937) according to Rate Books 52,681
Rateable Value (April 1st, 1938) £1,940,000
Sum represented by a penny rate (1937/8) £7,450
Social Conditions of Inhabitants.
See Annual Report for the year 1934.
The Manager of the Local Labour Exchange reports that the
figures of unemployment for 1937 do not differ materially from those
in previous years. For males the heaviest winter figure was about
2,000, those on the register being chiefly building workers and
persons employed in the distributive trades. The unemployment
is not affected by the defence programme, and with the renewed
building activity in the spring the number of unemployed males
should fall considerably. The figure of 500 unemployed females is
a slight rise on the figure recorded in previous years. The steady
flow of persons from distressed areas into this district apparently
still continues.