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DIAGRAMS
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Birth Rates and Death Rates 1871-1957 9
Expectation of Life at Birth in England and Wales 1871-1955 9
Percentage Change in Population since 1901 by Age Group 11
The Royal Family: Genealogical Tree 24
Organisation of the National Health Service in England and Wales 142
Supply of Goods and Services in 1935 and 1956 229
Production and National Income Trends 1900-57 229
Sources of Savings 1948 and 1956 231
Gross Investment Expenditure 1948 and 1956 231
Unemployment Rates (Great Britain) 1922-57 380
Earnings, Wage Rates and Retail Prices 1947-57 398
The National Budget 1958-59 414
Changes in the Volume of Trade 1947-57 427
Composition of Trade by Value 1938-57 428
Area Distribution of Trade 1938-57 432
The Balance of Payments 1947-57 443
The sources of the pre-war figures for the graph of Production and National Income
Trends are: Production Index, T. S. Ridley in Economica, February 1955; National
Income Index, A. R. Prest in Economic Journal, March 1948.
MAPS
The Commonwealth end-papers
United Kingdom: Physical 3
New Towns, National Parks and Forest Parks 179
Nuclear Energy Establishments 203
Location of Industry 238-9
Agriculture 255
The United Kingdom fold-in map
The end-papers map is based on a projection by G. Philip & Son Ltd.
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