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This scheme provides for the most equal possible
division of the population of 1881.
Numbers 1 & 5 Wards face each other for a considerable
distance in Commercial Road; the
character of the entire population in both wards
presents the same proportion of middle class and
working class, tradesmen, and artisans; and gives a
total of population of 64,332.
Wards 2 & 4 are exactly the same in their
character, and are intersected through their whole
length by so much of the Old Kent Road, as lies
between St. George, Southwark, and St. Paul,
Deptford. The characteristics of the population in
both wards are the same, manufacturing and trading
such as might be found in any provincial town of
50,000 or 60,000 inhabitants. The total population
of these wards is 57,567.
Wards 3 & 6 are to the largest extent residential,
there being only a few manufactories in each ward,
and a number of shops for the convenience of the
large suburban population. Of these two wards the
population is 64,694.
Appended to the Report were Maps shewing the
divisions in accordance with the alternative schemes,
and also the following statistics:—