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in the City and other parts of London. The building and brick
trades form the chief local industry, but there are in addition several
large works, notably the cartridge factory of Messrs. Eley Brothers,
Messrs. Ridley Whitley's Linoleum Works, and the Gothic Gas
Meter Works, whose employees are, for the most part, residents of
Edmonton. In the first-mentioned factory, however, where most of
the workers (about 1,100) are women, nearly one quarter of their
number reside in London, and come daily to their work by tram
or rail.
Two large union work-houses are situated in Fore Street Ward;
that belonging to the Strand Union, to which is attached the
Strand Union Schools, receives its inmates from the Strand district
alone. Its population does not, therefore, enter into our statistics,
except in the matter of births, which, however, are few in number.
The institution belonging to the Edmonton Board of Guardians
receives a certain proportion of its inmates from this district, and
these are treated as part of our population for statistical purposes.
The large bulk of the inmates are, however, derived from Tottenham,
Southgate, Wood Green, Hornsey, Enfield, and other districts that
go to make up the large Poor-law Union of Edmonton, and these, of
course, do not enter into our statistics. A table showing the number
of inmates in both institutions, and the births and deaths that have
taken place amongst them will bt found on page 50 (Table II.).
Pymmes Park, the property of the Council, is a large and centrally
situated public park, 53 acres in extent. The artificial lake,
completed earlier in the year, has since been extended, and a considerable
area of water will shortly be available for boating. The
making of the lake is part of an improvement scheme on which
numbers of the unemployed workmen of the district have been
engaged throughout the winter. The scheme also comprises the
planting of new shrubberies, &c., and the laying out of an old
English garden in one of the walled enclosures adjoining the old
mansion. As in the course of time Edmonton becomes more
densely populated, Pymmes Park will be an increasingly valuable
asset to the district.