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The Registrar-General's statistics relating to population, births and
deaths differ slightly from those compiled from local records. The total
figures in respect of the district as a whole, which are supplied by the
Registrar-General, are set out in this report, but where classification has
been made, e.g. by age groups, sex, wards, etc., it has necessarily been based
on our own records, which may, in the aggregate, show slight discrepancies
compared with the Registrar-General's totals.
UNEMPLOYMENT
The following figures in respect of persons living in Carshalton
registered as unemployed at the Sutton Employment Exchange and the
Carshalton Youth Employment Bureau at the end of 1956 are supplied
through the courtesy of the Exchange Manager and the Youth Employment
Officer :
Men 108
Women 49
Boys 8
Girls 3
POPULATION
The Registrar-General's estimate of the home population at mid-1956
is 60,970. This is 360 less than his estimate for mid-1955 and 1,751 less than
the population enumerated at the census in 1951. In the five years since
1951, the Registrar-General has reduced his estimate by 760. During this
period the natural increase resulting from the excess of births over deaths
was 1,289. This latest estimate means, therefore, that emigration from the
district exceeded immigration into the district by more than 2,000 individuals.
Whilst outward movement in this period was probably greater than
the inward movement, there is no local evidence to support the view that it
outweighed the natural increase or that the population is in fact less than it
was at the time of the Census 1951. Supporting this contention is the fact
that the number of children attending the schools of the education authority
born in the years 1942, 1943, 1944 and 1945 increased between the years
1951 and 1956 from 2,607 to 2,676. These four-year groups are of course
the only ones which were completely of compulsory school age throughout
the whole of the period 1951 to 1956. Although there are other factors
which may affect this number of schoolchildren to some extent any variation
is primarily the result of movement in and out of the district.
Further, the domestic accommodation was increased by the erection of 467
new dwellings and an examination of the electoral registers reveals that the
number of voters in 1956 was practically the same as in 1951, there being
only a difference of eight in a total of more than 43,000.
On the basis of the Registrar-General's estimated total population of
60,970, the estimated number in each ward is as follows:—
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