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December; something less than 0.5% of our
estimated working population.
Broadly speaking long tern unemployment can be
said to be confined to elderly persons or those
suffering some physical disability.
There was an unsatisfied demand for skilled
labour of all types during the year and the demand
is still growing; 6,100 men and 2,700 women were
placed in employment in the Employment Exchange
area during the year.
The greatest demand on available manpower has
been from aircraft, engineering and building
industries.
There are always vacancies for women in retail
distribution, in offices and factories hut the
main demand is for domestic workers in private
households and institutions".
3. Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
The crude birth and death rates for local areas
cannot properly he compared by reason of the fact that the
populations on which they are based may be of widely differing
sex and age constitutions. Consequently the Registrar
General provides a comparability factor for each area. When
the crude rate of any area is multiplied by this factor an
adjusted rate is produced which can be used to compare with
the adjusted rate of any other area, or with the crude death
rate for England and Wales as a whole (where the comparability
factor is unity).
The comparability factors for Kingston are
Births .95, Deaths .86,
The birth and death rates in respect of the town
are shown below and for the purpose of providing some
comparison the Rates for England and Wales are also shown.
It will be noticed that the rates for Kingston are lower
than for the country as a whole.