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118 APPENDIX.
Note to Column I. of No. V.
Speaking generally, this column may be taken to express the
number of houses in each Ward. Exception must be made, however,in
respect of the fourwards marked with asterisks: for in them
the real number of houses somewhat exceeds the number of assessments.
This discrepancy depends on the fact that, in the specified
wards, a court containing several houses is often assessed by composition
as a single property. Mr. Daw informs me that in order
to correct on this score the numbers which stand opposite the
wards in question, addition should be made as follows : to Bishopsgate
Without, 80—raising its number to 1100 ; to Cripplegate
Without, 150—raising its number to 1112; to Farringdon Without,
100—raising its number to 3633 ; to Portsoken, 150—raising
its number to 1408. This would raise the total number to 16,384,
which is about the estimated number of houses in the City. From
the results of the last census it appeared that the population of the
City was distributed as follows : within the district of the City of
London Union on an average of 7.1 persons to each house ; within
the district of the East and West London Unions on an average
of 8.8 persons to each house.