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A.—STATISTICS & SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
Area (in acres) 4,343
Population (Registrar-General's Estimate, mid-year 1951) 120,900
Number of Assessments (31st December, 1951) 36,631
Rateable Value (31st December, 1951) £908,395
Sum represented by penny rate £3,630
Population.—The Registrar-General's Estimate of the home
population at mid-year, 1951, is 120,900, a decrease of 1,800 on
the previous year.
Employment.—According to information kindly supplied by
Mr. Percy C. Graham, Manager of the Local Employment Exchange,
approximately 550 men and 250 women were placed in employment
every month during the year 1951, through the placing machinery
of the Employment Exchange. The number of persons insured
under the National Insurance Acts, employed in the whole area
covered by the Exchange comprising the Boroughs of Walthamstow,
Leyton, Chingford, Wanstead and Woodford, was approximately
82,000. Of this number, it is estimated that about 40,000
were employed in Walthamstow. During 1951 the average number
of persons unemployed in the whole area was 571 men and 230
women ; these included approximately 70 disabled men and 15
disabled women.

Stillbirths 38
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still)
births 22.7
Deaths 1,309
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated
home population 10.8
Deaths from puerperal causes:—
Puerperal Sepsis Deaths 2
Other Puerperal Causes —+