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Carshalton 1959

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]

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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 1959 are supplied through the
courtesy of the Exchange Manager and the Youth Employment Officer :
Men 97
Women 22
Boys 5
Girls 1
The figures in respect of men and women fell to approximately half
those of 12 months earlier.
POPULATION
The Registrar-General's estimate of the home population at mid-year
is 60,270. This is 30 less than his estimate for a year before and compares
with a de facto population as enumerated at the census of 1951 of 62,721
and with an estimated resident population for that year of 61,730.

Table: TABLE 1.ESTIMATED HOME POPULATION, MID-1959, BY WARDS.

TABLE 1.

ESTIMATED HOME POPULATION, MID-1959, BY WARDS.

WardDwellings at Mid-1959Estimated Population Mid-1959
St. Helier North2,1778,150
St. Helier South1,6987,090
St. Helier West2,1237,430
North-East2,8399,690
North-West2,2117,160
Central1,7765,730
South-East2,4658,470
South-West2,2376,550
Whole District17,52660,270

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BIRTHS
The number of live births registered during 1959 was 773 which is 23
more than in the year before. Of these 420 were males and 353 females,
giving a birth rate of 12.8 per thousand population.
The "comparable" birth rate produced by the application of the
Registrar-General's comparability factor of 0.97 to allow for the disparity
in the age and sex constitution of the local population and that of the
country as a whole is 12.4 per thousand population, which compares with
16.4 for England and Wales.
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