CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY

GENERAL NOTES

I	POPULATION AND VITAL STATISTICS		Table
		Population of the United Kingdom	1
		Age distribution of the population	2–3
		Births	4
		Reproduction rates	5
		Infantile mortality	6
		Deaths analysed by age and sex	7
		Marriages	8

II	MANPOWER
		Distribution of manpower	9
	Armed forces and auxiliary services
		Strength	10
		Age distribution	11
		Intake and outflow	12
		Releases	13
		Casualties	14
		Home Guard and Royal Observer Corps	15
		Civil Defence services	16
		Police services	17
	Civilian employment
		Agriculture	18
		Engineering, metals, explosives, chemicals and shipbuilding	19–23
		Iron and steel	24
		Textiles	25
		clothing	26
		Woodworking and furniture	27
		Paper and printing	28
		Leather and rubber	29
		Glass and pottery	30
		Railway staff	31
		Civil Service	32–33
		Government building programme	34
		Government training centres	35
		Industrial stoppages	36

III	SOCIAL CONDITIONS
	Public health
		Deaths analysed by age and cause	37–38
		Infectious diseases	39
		Venereal diseases	40
	National insurance
		National health insurance	41
		Unemployment insurance	42
		Pensions	43
		War pensions	44
	Justice and crime
		Offences known to the police and persons found guilty	45–47
		Juvenile deliquency	48–50
		Prison population	51
		Divorce proceedings	52
	Housing and building
		Houses built	53
		Construction activity	54

IV	AGRICULTURE AND FOOD
	Agriculture
		Area of crops and grassland	55–56
		Crops and grass harvested	57–58
		Yield per acre	59–60
		Cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry	61–62
		Horses grazed on agricultural land	63
		Agricultural machinery in use	64
	Food
		Movement off farms of cereals, potatoes and sugar beet	65
		Animals purchased for slaughter	66
		Milk sales	67
		Processed food: Production	68
		Food and animal feeding-stuffs: Consumption	69
		Estimated food supplies per head of civilian population	70
		Arrivals of lend-lease foodstuffs	71
		Losses of food and feeding-stuffs at sea	72

V	FUEL AND POWER
		Coal:
			Production, consumption and stocks	73
			Inland consumption	74
			Distributed stocks	75
			Productivity	76
		Coke: Production, consumption and stocks		77
		Coal tar products: Production		78
		Gas: Production and sales		79–80
		Electricity: Production and sales		81–82
		Petroleum:
			Arrivals of petroleum products and crude and process oils	83
			Production of finished products from imported crude and process oils	84
			Production from indigenous materials of petroleum products and substitutes	85
			Deliveries into consumption of petroleum products	86–89

VI	RAW MATERIALS
		Iron ore and manganese ore	90
		Pig iron	91
		Iron and steel scrap and steel ingots and castings	92
		Semi-finished and finished iron and steel	93
		Chrome ore and ferro-alloys	94
		Non-ferrous metals	95
		Alumnium	96
		Timber	97–98
		Hides, skin and finished leather	99
		Rubber	100
		Chemicals	101
		Fertilizers, ammonia and molasses	102
		Plastics and materials for plastics	103
		Paper and paper-making materials	104
		Raw cotton, cotton waste and cotton linters	105
		Cotton yarn	106
		Rayon, rayon yarn and woven fabrics	107
		Wool and silk	108
		Jute, flax and hemps	109
		Losses of raw materials at sea	110

VII	PRODUCTION
	Shipbuilding
		Naval vessels: Major combat	111
		Naval vessels: Ocean and coastal convoy, etc.	112
		Merchant vessels built in the United Kingdom	113–114
		Merchant vessels awaiting repair and repaired	115–116
	Munitions
		Index of munitions production	117
		Artillery equipment	118
		Naval guns	119
		Aircraft and light guns	120
		Other weapons	121
		Small arms	122
		Ammunition and explosives	123–125
		Armoured fighting vehicles	126
		Wheeled vehicles	127
		Signal equipment	128
		Engineer stores	129
	Aircraft
		Production by main groups	130
		Production by structure weight	131
		Index of aircraft production	132
		Aircraft awaiting repair and repaired	133
		Aircraft engines: Production, imports and repairs	134
		Arrivals of aircraft in the United Kingdom from North America	135
		Arrivals of aircraft overseas from North America	136
	Manufactured goods
		Machine tools	137
		Agricultural machinery	138
		Locomotives and motor vehicles	139
		Woven cloth, household textiles, hosiery and footwear	140
		Pottery, hollow-ware and brushes	141

VIII	EXTERNAL TRADE
		Value and volume of external trade	142
		Value of retained imports	143
		Value of exports	144
		Value of imports: Analysis by source	145
		Value of exports: Analysis by destination	146
		Quantity of imports	147–149
		Quantity of exports	150

IX	TRANSPORT
	Merchant shipping
		Merchant shipping under British control		151–153
		Merchant shipping: Analysis by employment		154
		Gains and losses of merchant shipping		155–157
		Losses from enemy action		158
		Shipping movement: Entrances and clearances in the foreign trade		159
		Arrivals of shipping at United Kingdom ports		160
		Imports under Departmental programmes		161–163
	Inland transport
		Rail:
			Repair and availability of rolling stock	164
			Passenger and goods traffic	165
			Operating statistics	166
			Traffic receipts	167
		Road:
			Vehicles with licenses current	168
			New vehicle registrations	169
		Canal traffic originating		170
		Coasting trade		171

X	PUBLIC FINANCE
		Exchequer receipts and issues	172–173
		Floating debt	174
		Currency circulation and bank clearings	175
		Prices and yields of British Government securities	176
		External disinvestment	177
		United States lend-lease aid to the British Empire	178
		United Kingdom reciprocal aid	179

XI	NATIONAL INCOME
		National income, depreciation and expenditure	180
		Revenue account of persons	181
		Revenue account of public authorities	182
		Combined capital account	183
		Central government revenue	184
		The finance of the central government deficit on current account	185
		Personal expenditure on consumers' goods and services	186

XII	WAGES AND PRICES
		Average weekly earnings and hours worked	187–189
		Wage rates and working-class cost of living index	190
		Agricultural price indices	191
		Stock and fertiliser price indices	192
		Wholesale prices	192

DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES

INDEX

ABBREVIATIONS

A.A	Anti-aircraft
A.C.	Alternating current
A.F.V.	Armoured fighting vehicle
A.P.	Armour piercing
A.S.	Anti-submarine
A.S.R.	Air sea rescue
C.A.	Coastal artillery
D.C.	Direct current
Derv (fuel)	Diesel-engined road vehicle
G.O.	Gas operated
H.E.	High explosive
L.S.T.	Landing ship tank
P.I.A.T.	Projector infantry anti-tank
S.D.	Standard displacement
SHAEF	Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
U.P.	Unrotated projectile
W.L.D.	War load displacement

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