§ Colonel Nathanasked the Minister of Labour whether he will state the number of unemployed men, women and juveniles registered at each of the Employment Ex changes within the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth in June, September, December and March, 1936, 1937, and 1938, and for each of the three months of the present year?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe table below shows for the Tooting Employment Exchange, the only Exchange in the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth, the numbers of unemployed men, women and juveniles on the registers at the dates in question, except March, 1939, for which figures are not yet available.
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Date. Men, aged 18 and over. Women, aged 18 and over. Juveniles, aged 14-17. Total, aged 14 and over. 1936. 23rd March … … 2,736 992 64 3,792 22nd June … … 2,004 656 43 2,703 21st September … … 2,138 511 60 2,709 14th December … … 2,461 481 48 2,990 1937. 15th March … … 2,442 683 69 3.194 21st June … … 1,890 478 58 2,426 *13th September— Old Basis … … 2,121 505 87 2,713 New Basis … … 2,015 450 83 2,548 13th December … … 2,932 651 54 3.637 1938. 14th March … … 3,237 1,031 82 4.350 13th June … … 2,799 1,092 105 3,996 12th September … … 2,896 1,087 130 4,113 1939. 12th December … … 3,729 1.323 73 5,125 16th January … … 4,022 1,417 144 5,583 13th February … … 3,804 1,596 112 5,512 * In September, 1937, a revised procedure for counting the unemployed was introduced under which persons on the registers subsequently found to have been in employment on the day of the count are excluded from the figures. The count of the unemployed on 13th September, 1937, was made on both the old and the new basis.