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ing consumption, in that quarter; 57 in the second;
39 in the third ; and 74 in the fourth.
THE DISTRICT AND WARDS.
The District is situate on the north-western
border of the Metropolis, and is somewhat triangular
in outline.
The southern boundary extends from Maida
Vale, Edgware Road on the east to parish of Twyford
on the west, a linear distance of about 4 miles.
It abuts in its course the parishes of Paddington,
Chelsea (detached), Kensington, Hammersmith
and Acton.
The north-western boundary is the River Brent
and Twyford parish, a linear distance of about 3|
miles.
The north-eastern boundary is the main road
from London to Edgware from a point nearly 300 yds.
below the London and North-Western Railway,
known as Kilburn Gate, to the Welsh Harp Reservoir
at Hendon, a distance of over 3 miles.
At the beginning of the year 1895, the Willesden
Local Board of the previous twenty years had
ceased to exist, and the Willesden Urban District
Council commenced.
With the change on January 1st, there was also
a change in the number and area of the Wards, the