[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.

  • Chorley (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RATEABLE VALUE. Tlie rateable value ol the Burougli is .£148,UUO aud the product of a iDeiiny rate is i/OdS. SOCIAL CONDITIONS. The number of persons, resident in (Jhorley, who Mere in receipt of relief at the end of 1937 was 6U4; 88 M-ere receiv- ing indoor relief and 51b outdoor relief. At the end of 1936 9U3 M^ere in receipt of relief. The total amount of out-door relief disbursed to Chorley residents during 1937 was £11,141 as compared with £16,103 in 1936, £16,862 in 1935, and £13,002 in 1934. The Manager of the Labour Exchange has furnished in- formation which shows that unemployment, as recorded by his department, M^as less prevalent than in 1936. The average number of persons registered as unemployed in one week of each month during 1937 M'as 1898 (1,363 men, 459 Mmmen, and 76 juveniles) as compared with 2,419 (1,633 men, 660 women, and 126 juveniles) in 1936. The erection of the Royal Ordnance Factory at Euxton was begun early in 1937 and by the end of the year 5,000—- 6,000 men were employed there. Most of this labour has been imported and as many of these men have sought accom- modation in the town a considerable increase in overcrowding has resulted. It is anticipated that when the factory is com- pleted much of this overcroMuling will be abated by the re- moval from the district of this temporary influx of population. This large increase of wage earners in the district has given the toMm a superficial appearance of prosperity but the cotton trade, the staple industry of the town, shoM’s no signs of im- provement. Ill the aecompanyiiig statistical table are slioM'ii those items most likely to be affected adversely by severe poverty and distress.