Ludność powiatu łaskiego w latach trzydziestych XX w. w świetle materiałów łódzkiego Wydziału Statystycznego

Abstrakt

So far the demographic and historical researches focused on the whole country, individual cities or parishes. There should be also proceed similar researches in reference to provinces or administrative districts. The present article concerns the state of population and its structure in Łask administrative district in the thirties 20th century. J. Śmiałowski and B. Wachowska have already written about numerical population status in Łask and the structure of its inhabitants.

The materials left by Łódź Statistics Department contain the data relating to the following: state of population in the past, migration movement, natural movement between 1932–1938. The materials also describe the area of the whole administrative district, Pabianice and Łask as well as individual municipality in 1938 according to its age structure, denominational structure and social-professional one. These data are the result of statistical investigations led on the area of several districts of Łódź Voivodeship in the thirties 20th century.

After the world war I Łask district belonged to the voivodeship which was one of larger social joints of Jewish and German population. The district included the town of Pabianice which was a significant centre of textile production. That fact had influence on social and professional structure of Łódź district inhabitants.

In thirties there was a constant growth of population of Łask district. Minor owners were the largest social group (mostly they were cotters, craftsmen and minor tradesfolks). The large numer of inhabitants of the district was employed in industry. The large influence on the denominational structure of Łask district had the fact of coexistence of Pabianice – a significant multicultural industrial centre, which included a considerable group of Jewish, a certain number of Protestants and a large number of Germans in other regions of Łask district too.