THE EXTENT OF LONDON.
London covers nearly 700 square miles. It numbers more than 4,000,000 inhabitants from every quarter of the globei It contains more 'Roman Catholics than Rome itself} more Jews than Palestine; more Irish than Dublin j more Scotchmen than Edinburgh ; more Welshmen than Cardiff; has a birth every five minutes, and a death every eight minutes; has seven accidents in it every day in its 7600 miles of streets; has 124 persons every day, and 45,000 annually added to its popu* lation; has 117,000 habitual criminals on its police register, and has 38,000 drunkards annually brought before the Magistrates,
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Kumara Times, Issue 715, 14 January 1879, Page 2
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102THE EXTENT OF LONDON. Kumara Times, Issue 715, 14 January 1879, Page 2
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