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The 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, as to include the
deaths (more than twice those of the district) of such an
Institution with those of the District would create a mistaken
and adverse impression of the health of the District.
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 May 3rd, 1910, and additional boundary plates
were fixed where necessary.
Vital Statistics.
Population.—I have before explained the methods
adopted for estimating the intercensal years, and the reasons
that have led me to adopt the figure 5.4 for estimating the
population. Taking the number of occupied houses in the
middle of the year as 2295, and multipying by 5.4, gives an
estimated population of 12,394, and this number agrees very
nearly with the census, allowance being made for the different
periods under consideration, the census being taken in April
and the estimate of the population of the District in June.