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The General Character of the District.— For the purposes
of representation, statistics, &c., it is divided into
three WardsNorth, South and Central
The North Ward (594 acres) and is that part of
the district north of Friary Road and the footpath from
Friern Lane east to Lilly Villas.
The Central Ward (325 acres) comprises the middle
part of the district North of Friern Barnet Road and
west of the Great Northern Railway.
The South Ward ,(233 acres) is the remaining portion
of the district including the Site of the London County
Asylum (Colney Hatch) 152 acres.
The population is unevenly distributed. The North
Ward is to a large extent pasture land and the houses
for the most part are of a higher rateable value being
detached. The more Northern portion of the Ward is
being developed.
The houses in the Central Ward are chiefly semide
tached and in terraces and streets. The Western portion
of the Ward adjoining Finchley is being actively developed.
The South Ward is the most thickly populated, the
houses being of the six roomed type, and are inhabited in
many cases by more than one family.
Vital Statistics.
The population is obtained by counting the number
of tenements actually inhabited at the middle of the year
1913 as assessed in the rate books and multiplying this
figure by the factor 5.4.
The factor 5.4 is obtained by dividing the census
population of the district by the number of inhabited
assessments in the middle of the census year.
The population in 1881 was 4,405, in 1891 6,716,
and in 1901 the total population at all ages at census:
11,566.