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1899] 10
2,884½ acres. The difference between the gross and net areas is
made up as follows :—
Water (Canals and New River Aqueducts) 13*2 acres.
Railways 158*5 „
Markets 15*5 „
Parks and Open Spaces 37*5 „
Total unavailable space 2247 „
Water covers 4*1 acres in the Sub-district of South-west
Islington, 67 acres in South-east Islington, and 2*4 acres in
Highbury.
Railways occupy 21*5 acres in Upper Holloway, 55 in Southwest
Islington, and 82 in Highbury.
Markets render 15*5 acres unavailable for habitation in Islington
South West.
Parks and Open Spaces occupy 7 acres in South-west Islington,
3*5 acres in South-east Islington, and 27 acres in Highbury.
Net Area of Sub-Districts.—On deducting these areas from the
gross acreage of the several sub-districts there remain available
In Upper Holloway 1,006½ acres.
In South-west Islington 731½ „
In South-east Islington 452¾ ,,
In Highbury 693¾ „
2,884¾ „
Density of Population.—There are 112 persons living on
each acre of the parish, a figure far in excess of any that is known
in the Great Towns, the most densely populated of which is Bolton
with 68*8 persons per acie. In Huddersfield the density is only 87
per acre, which is the lowest in these great centres of population.
To show the enormous difference between the density of Islington,
as well as of other London districts, and that of provincial towns,
it is necessary to state that in Nottingham it is only 21*8 per acre,
in Leicester 24*9, in Hull 26*0, in Bristol 27*5, in Birmingham 40*5,
in Manchester 42*1, in Liverpool 47*9. No doubt if this density