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AREA.
The total area comprises 2,594 acres, containing 23,353 houses.
Last year (1907) the number of houses was 23,041, so that this year
there is an increase of 312. The distribution of houses, population,
&c., in the nine wards is as follows:—
Ward.
Area in
acres.
Number
of houses.
Persons
per acre.
Number of Inhabited
houses at middle
of year 1908.
Estimated
Population.
Leyton
432
1736
20.7
1600
8936
Lea Bridge
521
2905
29.2
2733
15204
Forest
599
2938
25.5
2674
15271
Central
233
4277
93.9
3910
21872
Leytonstone
326
3428
54.8
3207
17860
Harrow Green
139
1946
72.7
1818
10127
Grove Green
121
1906
80.6
1744
9752
Cann Hall
135
2572
101.2
2454
13657
Wanstead Slip
88
1645
95.8
1530
8530
Totals
2594
23353
46.7
21670
121209
The assessable value is £470,926 for General District Purposes,
and a rate of 1d. in the £ produces £1,780. For Poor Rate
Purposes the assessable value is £498,463 15s., and 1d. rate
produces £1,858.
POPULATION.
I estimate the population to the middle of year at 121,200,
and I arrive at this figure by allowing 5.5 persons to every inhabited
house and one person to every uninhabited house. The RegistrarGeneral's
estimate is 125,815, but he assumes that we have gone