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Winchmore Hill, the more rural parts of the District, on the
north side of the line, and Palmers Green, Bowes Park, and
New Southgate, the more urban parts of the District, on the
south side.
For the purposes of local administration the District was
in 1906 divided into four wards, which correspond roughly with
the four localities above-mentioned, two wards in North Southgate
and two in South Southgate.
The District is largely an essentially residential one, and the
greater part of the inhabitants are engaged in a professional or
business capacity in the Metropolis. There are very few really
poor.
The few factories include. Dyeing and Cleaning Works,
a Colour Works, a Photographic Plate Works, an Enamelled
Sign Works, an Engineering Works, and a factory producing
Wire Stitching Machines. These give employment in normal
times to 360 hands.
POPULATION.
In a memorandum dated March 1st, 1921, the RegistrarGeneral
says that in 1920 demobilization had reached a stage at
which it is felt that the distinction between "birth-rate populations"
and "death-rate populations" made during the period
when a large part of the male population was under arms might
in general be discontinued, and that for most districts a single
estimate of the population applicable to both births and deaths
might be made.
He estimates the population of this district for the year 1920
to be 40,550.
The number of inhabited houses in July, 1920, was 9,526,
which gives on this estimate an average between 4.2 and 4.3
persons per house. Now the census of 1911 showed that the
average number of persons per house in that year was 4 4.
Owing to the shortage of houses generally now obtaining it is
difficult to believe that the average per house is not at any rate
as much as it was in 1911, in spite of the shortage of domestic
servants, which makes some difference, and must be taken into