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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA
Area (in acres—Census, 1931) 3,221
Population (Census, 1931) 59,524
Population (Estimated, 1937, R.G.) 58,440
Number of inhabited houses :—
1921 (Census) 11,926
1931 (Census) 13,325
1937 (According to Rate Books) 15,800
Number of families or separate occupiers:—
1921 (Census) 13,998
1931 (Census) 15,883
Rateable Value:—£781,317.
Sum represented by a penny rate:—£3,255.
Social Conditions.—A great many of the residents are
engaged in professional and commercial occupations.
In the southern part of the Borough there are a number
of factories and workshops, three hundred and twenty-six
premises being registered under the Factory and Workshop
Acts. Most of these premises are small. There are
eighteen laundries registered in the district and they
employ a large number of women. In addition, there are
leather works, gas mantle works, tool and file works, and a
railway stock and repair depot, which employ a considerable
number of people.
The nature of the work carried on in these factories and
workshops does not exert any influence on the public health
of the town.
The figures for unemployment amongst Wimbledon
residents registered at the Employment Exchange at the end
of the year show an increase of one hundred and sixty-seven
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