The report of each walk is accompanied by a sketch map of the area covered in the walk. A typical description indicates if the street should be coloured differently on the updated edition of the poverty map, the type of housing, inhabitants if seen, state of the roads, type of occupations and extent of poverty of the inhabitants. Sometimes the descriptions go beyond this and general subjects are recorded. For example, the relationship of publicans and police, crime and drunkenness among men, women and children, descriptions of ethnic communities. General remarks on the walk tend to appear at the end of each report.
Abbreviations are common in the police notebooks.