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the most part are of a higher rateable value, being detached
and separated some distance from each other ; and this
obtains also in the West portion of the Central Ward, On
the other hand, in the Eastern or Holly Park side of the
Ward the houses are in terraces and streets.
The South Ward is the most thickly populated, the
houses in the neighbourhood of New Southgate Station and
the South-west part, where building is in progress, being of
a superior character; whilst the remainder are the usual
six-roomed houses, inhabited in many cases by more than
one family. In this Ward also there is a tendency to the
erection of flats and the conversion of six-roomed houses
into flats.
The population in 1881 was 4,405; in 1891, 6,716;and
in 1901, 8,816; the average number of persons per house
being respectively 6.01 and 5.6 for the two latter years, as
estimated from figures supplied from the Census Office by
the Registrar-General.
Total population at all ages at Census of 1901:—
District, 8,816; Asylum 2,750 11,566
Numbers of inhabited houses 1,633
Average number of persons per house 5.6
Houses Wards.
North. South. Central. Total
Occupied 358 853 617 1,828
Unoccupied 14 165 79 258
Births.
These numbered 294, giving a birth rate of 28.9, being
an increase of 1.5.
The natural increase of the population by the excess of
births over deaths was 294—117 =177, the excess in
1906 being 152.
On reference to the Tables it will be seen that there is
a decrease in the total population due to the great number
of empty houses along the tram route and empty flats on
the Freehold.