Distress on Merseyside The University of Liverpool's Division of Statistics
has published an interesting continuation of some of the records issued a year ago in connexion with the Merseyside Survey. These include a comparison . in some detail of the relative positions of the Ports of Liverpool and London. Taking the trade of 1927-9 as 100, the trade of the United Kingdom was down in 1933 to 74, that of London to 80 only, and that of Liverpool to 68. Or; putting it in fractions, the whole country lost about a quarter of its trade, Liverpool lost nearly a third, and London only a fifth. The position of the " stricken North " is reflected in those figures. It may be noted that in 1927L9 before the slump Liverpool exported rather higher values than she imported. Now that position is reversed. Roughly one-quarter of the total unemployment on Merseyside is' estimated as the effect of the present crisis, but in certain branches of labour the proportion is much higher.
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