THE LARGEST CITY
• The population of, New York and its neighbourhood is well ahead of London, in the opinion of Dr. Walter Laidlaw, secretary of the Cities Census .Committee", .who has just, returned from an extended visit to England's metropolis (writes the New York correspondent of the "Daily Mail"); Dr. Laidlaw puts the population of Greater New York at 9,900,000, and says:—"Greater London, extended to include 336,592 acres in 101 rural and urban districts, contained in ,1921 only 7,900,273 persons, and 417,824 acres in the remainder of the London traffic: > area : had then a population of 310,227."' ' Greater New York, Ije, says, ~hns .an area of 552,259 acres. He thinks that London's present population does not.'exceed 8.000,000, and; wlitle prepared to add 500,000 more foi; the whole arc* constituting Greater London, c.onsidets that.jb will still have 1,000,000- persons fewer than New York. The population of Greater London at the last Census in 1921 was 7,476,168.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1931, Page 22
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155THE LARGEST CITY Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1931, Page 22
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