♦ Some Facts about Lokdox.— London is spread over about 7,000 square miles. There is one death there eveiy six minutes, and one birth every four. The growth of the population is at the rate of 75,000 a year, or 205 each day. The total length of streets in London is about 7,000 miles ; there are built every year about 9,000 new houses, by which tbe length of the streets ie inoreased by 28 miles. In the gaols there are an average of 75,000 prisoners. The foreign-born residents of London number about 105.800 ; but 37 per cent of the whole population were born out of the city.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 33, 16 December 1879, Page 3
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106Untitled Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 33, 16 December 1879, Page 3
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