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VESTRY AND COMMITTER MEETINGS.
The number of Meetings during the year have been :—
Vestry .... ... ... ... ... ••• 44
Finance Committee ... ... ... ... 56
Assessment Committee ... ... ... ... 50
Assessors ... ... ... ... ... ... 23
Dusting and Slopping Committee... ... ... 34
Excuse Committee... ... ... ... ... 6
General Purposes Committee ... ... ... 37
Highways Committee ... ... ... ... 21
Lighting Committee ... ... ... ... 12
Sanitary Committee ... ... ... ... 32
Sewers and Buildings Committee ... ... ... 18
Works Committee ... ... ... ... ... 41
„ Northern District Sub-Committee... ... 14
„ South Eastern „ „ ... 17
„ „ Western „ „ ... 15
„ Horse and Depot Sub-Committee ... ... 27
Special Committees ... ... ... ... 16
Total ... 463
ACREAGE AND POPULATION.
The area of Islington is 3,107 statute acres.
At the census taken on April 6th, 1891, the parish contained a
population of 319,433 and 38,259 inhabited houses.
This population, though probably the largest of any single
parish in the United Kingdom, is yet considerably under what it had
been estimated to be having regard to the rate of increase of the decade
from 1871 to 1881 or to the increase in the number of the houses in
the parish. When it is, however, borne in mind that the parish is now
almost entirely built over, it is very evident that the past rates of increase
can no longer operate. Indeed, in this respect a parish may be said
to be less elastic than a town or borough since the boundaries of the
former are practically lixed while those of the latter may be from time
to time enlarged. A eomparatively small annual increase (if any)