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(ii) Social Conditions.
The Manager of the local Employment Exchange states
that there was an increase in employment in the area during
1947.
In the boroughs of Kingston, Maiden and Coombe, and
Surbiton, and the Esher Urban District, which is the area
with which the local Employment Exchange deals, approximately
2,000 more men, and 300 less women, were employed than in 1946.
The total figure of employed persons was some 6,000 more than
in 1939. The percentage figure for unemployed was very small.
Towards the end of the year, signs of a desire to return to
work on the part of married women was noticed, and the numbers
on the womens' register was higher than for some years.
As a result of the raising of the school leaving age,
there were only 222 leavers as compared with the usual 600,
so that the supply of juvenile labour was not nearly sufficient
to meet the demand.
I am indebted to the Manager of the local Employment
Exchange for this, and other useful information, and for the
ready co-operation of his department throughout the year.
The principal industries of the area are general
engineering, motor engineering, building, manufacture of
radio components and construction and repair of aircraft.
The district is still residential in character over
the greater part of the area.

Birth Rate (Registrar General)
per 1,000 population 21.33

Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 16.95