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Wards.—Tufnell 32,838, Upper Holloway 34,822, Tollington 34,765,
Lower Holloway 41,537, Highbury 34,858, Mildmay 24,862, Thornhill 33,370,
Barnsbury 20,908, St. Mary's 17,298, Canonbury 31,160 and St. Peter's 32,719.
Males and Females.—There are 161,246 males and 177,891 females
living in the Borough whose ages have been estimated as in Table IV. It is
on all these figures that the several birth, death and infectious diseases rates
have been calculated in this report.
Areas.—The area of the Borough is nearly five square miles, actually 3,091.5
acres. Considerable though this area undoubtedly is, it is exceeded by the
areas of at least seven metropolitan boroughs, namely, Woolwich, Lewisham,
Greenwich, Wandsworth, Camberwell, Hackney and Lambeth, but their areas
are not nearly all built on, which is unfortunately the case with Islington, and
consequently they are not so crowded.