§ SIR HENRY TYLER (Great Yarmouth)asked the President of the Local Government Board, What form of proceeding should be taken on behalf of a borough not numbering 50,000 inhabitants at the last Census, but now claiming that number, to entitle it to the privilege, under the Local Government Bill, of becoming, for the purposes of that Bill, a county in itself?
§ THE PRESIDENT (Mr. RITCHIE) (Tower Hamlets, St. George's)The course which I would suggest would be that any such borough should forward to the Local Government Board the best evidence that they can adduce as to the increase in the population of the borough since the Census of 1881. Probably the best means of making an estimate of the increase of population would be a calculation on the basis of the number of inhabited houses as appearing in the Rate Book in April, 1881, and at the present time.