LONDONERS' HABITS.
MORE SOBER AND BETTER EDUCATED. RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—-BY EI.3CTRIC telegraph—copyright. ) (Received November 24th, 11.35 p.m.) LONDON, November 23. As a result of n two years' investigation directed by Sir Hubert .Smith, it is stated that Londoners are more sober, healthier, nnd better educated than they were forty years ago. Londoners consume fifty per cent, less alcohol, smoke twice as much, travel more, spend four times as much, read four times as many books, nnd are less inclined to crime and violence than forty yea re rigo. The Cocknev dialect is disappearing, but the Cockney twang is spreading to other classes. [Sir Hubert Smith, G.C.8., K.C.8., was chairman of tho committee under Merchandise Marks Acts, 1927, and Director ->f New Survey of Life and Labour in Lowlou, 1928. He has been chairman of the British Tnstitvitp of Industrial Art since 1920, and from 1919 to 192 7 was Chief Economic Adviser to the British Government. He lias written several monographs and essays on economic, art, and educational subjects.]
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 25 November 1930, Page 11
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