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ASSESSABLE AND RATEABLE VALUE.
The assessable value is £476,686 for general district purposes,
and a rate of 1d. in the £ produces £1,840. For poor rate purposes
the rateable value is £509,234, and 1d. rate produces £1,889.
AREA, INHABITED HOUSES, POPULATION.
The total area comprises 2,594 acres, containing 23,595 houses.
In the year 1908 the number of houses was 23,353, so that in the
year 1909 there has been an increase of 242 houses.
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 Inhabite
houses at middle
of year 1909.
d
Estimated
Population.
Leyton
432
1762
20.9
1616
9034.0
Lea Bridge
521
2964
29.1
2711
15163.0
Forest
599
3000
25.5
2711
15199.5
Central
233
4316
94.5
3936
22028.0
Leytonstone
326
3480
54.5
3207
17911.5
Harrow Green
139
1947
72.0
1788
9993.0
Grove Green
121
1908
80.3
1736
9720.0
Cann Hall
135
2573
99.4
2411
13432.5
Wanstead Slip
88
1645
93.7
1467
8246.5
Totals
2594
23595
46.5
21583
120728.0
In estimating the population by the method I have adopted
in my last two Annual Reports, viz., by allowing 5.5 persons to
each inhabited house and one to each uninhabited house, I arrive at
the unexpected conclusion that our population appears to have
diminished by 472 persons during the year 1909. This apparent
diminution is to be explained by the fact that although the total
number of houses in the district has increased by 242 (23,595 against
23,353), the number of inhabited houses has diminished by 87 (21,583
against 21,670). But as there is no doubt the number of persons