[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, South Shields County Borough.

  • South Shields (Durham, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, South Shields County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH. Area of Borough (including inland water but excluding foreshore and tidal water) . 4,104 acres. Population at Census 1931. 113,455 Resident population, mid-year 1938 (Registrar- General’s estimate) (Borough as extended on 1st April, 1936) . 110,400 Number of inhabited houses at end of 1938 (according to Rate Books). 31,545 Rateable Value at 1st April, 1938. £548,752 Produce of a penny rate (estimate for year 1938-39)... £2,109 Social Conditions. The principal industries are shipbuilding, ship-repairing, coal-mining and export. Except for those employed in a local biscuit factory and at a dye works, there is very little industrial employment of women in the Borough. Unemployment : I am indebted to Mr. W. Thomson, Manager of the Employment Exchange, for information relating to unemployment, which I have summarised below. The average numbers on the live registers taken from the monthly returns, were as follows. The figures for 1935, 1936 and 1937 are also given :— 1938. 1937. 1936. 1935. Men (age 21-64). 7,919 7,844 9,749 11,265 Young Men (age 18-20) . 431 328 414 551 Bovs (age 16-17) . 216 247 320 283 Boys (age 14-15) . 172 190 311 488 Women (age 21-64) . 358 337 359 379 Young Women (age 18-20). 174 141 159 165 Girls (age 16-17) . 140 182 198 165 Girls (age 14-15) .;. 208 225 287 394 9,618 9,494 11,797 13,690