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The humble Memorial of the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
SHEWETH:—
1.—That your Memorialists have had under consideration the large
increase in the population and rateable value of the Parliamentary
Borough of Wandsworth since the passing of the
Local Government Act, 1888.
2.—That each of the Parliamentary Boroughs or Divisions of
Parliamentary Boroughs in the Metropolis (except the City
of London, which returns 4 members) returns 2 members
to the County Council.
3.—That your Memorialists find that in the year 1888 the population
of the Parliamentary Borough of Wandsworth was
estimated to be 94,933. The rateable value at that time was
,£680,515.
4.—That in the year 1891 the population of the Parliamentary
Borough of Wandsworth amounted to 113,244, and from the
census returns just published the population appears to be
179,882, being an increase in the last ten years of 66,638,
which is 21,028 more than the increase in respect of any other
Parliamentary Borough in London during the same period.
5.—That the population of the Borough now amounts to about
3.98 per cent, of the whole population of the Metropolis.
6.—That the area of the Borough is, with the exception of that of
Woolwich, larger than that of any other Parliamentary
Borough in the Metropolis, being iroi per cent, of the
whole of the Metropolis.
7.—That the rateable value of the Parliamentary Borough of
Wandsworth is now £1,207,688, shewing an increase of
£527,173 since 1888, the rateable value having thus increased
77.46 per cent, in 13 years.
8.—That the rateable value of the Borough is now about 3.45 per
cent. of the rateable value of the whole of the Metropolitan
area.
9.—That the number of County Council and Parochial Electors
in the Borough is 27,624, being 4.04 per cent, of the total
County Council and Parochial Electors in London.
10.—That the number of inhabited houses in the Borough is 29.527,
being 5.16 per cent, of the total number of Inhabited Houses
in the County of London.