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The Council also possess a handsome and well-equipped free
library and reading rooms, in which are preserved some of the links,
both archaeological and literary, connecting the district with the
Edmonton of Cowper and Charles Lamb.
A very marked improvement in the general appearance of the
district has been effected by the repaving of the main road with
wood. This work was completed early in the year, and in July the
new electric tramway service was established up to the terminus at
Tramway Avenue. Some widening operations at certain points in
the road remain to be carried out betore the whole scheme can be
said to be complete. In the meantime the inhabitants are benefiting
immensely by the improved means of transit, and the greater
cleanliness of the new road adds materially to their comfort, and
plays, I am convinced, an important part in the conservation of
their health.
VITAL STATISTICS.

The estimated population for the year is arrived at by multiplying
the number of inhabited houses at the middle of the year, by the
number of inhabitants per house, as given in the last Census Report.
This figure for Edmonton in 1901 was 5.76. The number of
inhabited houses in the district in the middle of 1905 was 9,441.
To the figure thus obtained (54,380), is added the average number of
Edmonton residents in the Edmonton Union Workhouse, which for
the year was found to be 226.