§ Sir R. GOWERasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons, specifying men, women, boys and girls, on each of
Unemployed persons on the registers of Employment Exchanges and Juvenile Employment Bureaux in Kent at 25th June, 1934. Employment Exchange.* Men. Boys. Women. Girls. Total. Ashford 327 6 43 2 378 Bexley Heath 329 23 114 43 509 Borough Green* 23 — 1 — 24 Bromley 487 8 110 6 611 Canterbury 464 8 47 22 541 Chatham 3,776 105 394 192 4,467 Cranbrook 47 — 1 — 48 Dartford 805 56 106 59 1,026 Deal 264 9 49 10 332 Dover 903 70 175 82 1,230 Erith 1,016 33 147 89 1,285 Faversham 205 3 105 5 318 Folkestone 483 12 76 13 584 Gravesend 1,623 115 133 98 1,969 Herne Bay 93 5 18 2 118 Hythe* 91 — 9 — 100 Maidstone 683 17 180 31 911 Margate 491 14 92 8 605 Orpington* 168 — 16 — 184 Penge 1,487 15 165 20 1,687 Ramsgate 666 38 237 37 978 Sandwich 115 1 6 — 122 Sevenoaks 40 5 11 3 59 Sheerness 410 29 50 35 524 Sidcup 296 20 68 21 408 Sittingbourne 159 9 41 16 225 Snodland* 212 — 7 — 219 Tonbridge 455 12 57 17 541 Tunbridge Wells 407 8 131 12 558 Westerham* 40 — 5 — 45 West Mailing* 36 — 3 — 39 Whitstable 176 1 12 — 189 * The figures given for each Employment Exchange includes those for the Juvenile Employment Bureau for the area, except in the cases of Borough Green, Hythe, Orpington, Snodland, Westerham and West 1NIalling, in which districts unemployed juveniles are registered at Juvenile Employment Bureaux within the areas of other Employment Exchanges included in the list.