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It comprises 1,303 acres 1 rood including 149 acres
occupied by the buildings and grounds of the Colney Hatch
Asylum), most of which is undulating ground, varying from
150 to 300 feet above the sea level, the geological formation
being London clay with here and there patches of gravel.
7he General Character of the District.— For the
purposes of representation, statistics. &c., it is divided into
three Wards—North, South, and Central; and in addition
Colney Hatch Asylum—situated between the Central and
South Wards—is treated separately to a great extent, as to
include the deaths of such an institution with those of the
District would create a mistaken and adverse impression.
The population is unevenly distributed; thus in the
North Ward a large part is pasture land, and the houses for
the most part are of a higher rateable value, being detached
and separated some distance from each other, but during
the year several houses of lower rent have been built. The
houses in the Central ward are chiefly semi-detached, and
in terraces and streets. Many new houses have been built
lately.
The South Ward is the most thickly populated, the
houses being of the usual six-roomed kind, and are inhabited
in many cases by more than one family. In this Ward also
there is the tendency to the erection of flats, and the conversion
of six-roomed houses into flats.
The Bounds of the District were beaten by the Overseers
on 3rd May, 1910, and additional boundary plates
have been fixed where necessary.
Vital. Statistics.
Population.— I have before explained the methods taken
for estimating the intercensal years and the reasons which
have led me to adopt the figure 5.6 for estimating the population.
Taking the number of occupied houses in the
middle of the year as 2075 and multiplying by 5 6 gives an
estimated population of 11,620.