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1904]
consisting mainly of the Regent's Canal and New River, 158.5 acres covered
by the Great Northern and North London Railways, 15.5 acres forming the
Islington Cattle Market, and 37.5 acres laid out in parks and open spaces, of
which Highbury Fields form 25 acres,† or a total of 224.7 acres, thus leaving
the net area of the Borough at 2,867.3 acres.
Sub-Registration Districts.—The size of the sub-districts vary considerably;
thus Highbury comprises 798 acres, while Upper Holloway only
consists of 290. The area of each sub-district has been measured as follows :—
Highbury 798, South East Islington 545, Tufnell 417, Lower Holloway 413,
Tollington 320, Barnsbury 309, and Upper Holloway 290 acres.
Wards.—The Wards also are very unequal in size, as the following
figures show:—Highbury 417 acres, Tufnell 417, Lower Holloway 413, Mildmay
337, Tollington 320, Upper Holloway 290, Canonbury 286, Thornhill 172,
St. Peter 155, St. Mary 148, and Barnsbury 137 acres.
Population.—The number of persons estimated to have been living in
the Borough at the middle of the year was 341,044, of whom 162,149 were
males and 178,895 were females, as compared with 339,137 persons of whom
161,246 were males, and 177,891 were females, in 1903.

The Registrar General's estimated increase, if increase there were, of the
population over the preceding year was only 1,907 persons, or slightly over
one-half per cent., which is very different from that which used to obtain in
previous years when the annual increase varied from 4 per cent to as high as
7 per cent. In this connection it will be of interest to note the population
at the several censuses since 1801, and the actual and percentage increases from
one enumeration to another.
† Vide Annual Report 1898, p. 9.