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A.—STATISTICS & SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
Area (in acres) 4,343
Population (Registrar-General's Estimate, mid-year 1957) 1 15,300
Number of Assessments (31st December, 1957) 38,842
Rateable Value (31st December, 1957) £1,574,994
Estimated Product of a penny rate £6,255
Population.—The Registrar-General's Estimate of the home
population at mid-year, 1957, is 115,300 a decrease of 1,400 on the
previous year.
The peak population for Walthamstow, i.e., 135,600 was
reached in 1933, then there was a steady decrease to 130,000 in
1939. During the War of 1939/45 the population fluctuated
between 109,400 and 94,170, and then in 1946 recovered with
demobilisation to 118,050, reaching a peak post-War population
of 123,500 in 1949.
Since then there has been a steady decline each year largely
accounted for by outward transfers, especially to the New Towns,
since no fewer than 1,162 families were so rehoused by the Housing
Department alone between 1950/57.
Employment.—According to information kindly supplied by
Mr. Percy C. Graham, Manager of the local Employment Exchange,
approximately 350 men and 170 women were placed in employ
ment every month during the year 1957 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, and Wanstead and Woodford,
was approximately 83,000. Of this number it is estimated that
about 38,000 were employed in Walthamstow. During 1957, the
average number of persons unemployed in the whole area was
730 men and 200 women, including 115 disabled men and 15
disabled women.
Extracts from Vital Statistics.—The Registrar-General's midyear
1957 estimate of the home population (viz., 115,300) has been
used for the calculation of all vital statistics.
Total Males Female
Live Legitimate 1,267 630 637 Birth rate per
Births Illegitimate 58 27 31 1,000 of the
Totals,1,325 657 668 estimated home
population 11.4
Stillbirths 36 Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 26.4
Deaths 1,324 Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated
home population 11.4