£40,0CC’,330 A YEAR

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 88, 23 September 1938, Page 4

£40,0CC’,330 A YEAR

LONDON’S SERVICES STRIKING STATISTICS LONDON, May 24.—1 t costs £40,(100,000 a year to- run Louden, or ai l)out £5 a head. The estimate is . that of the- London Countyi Cmineil, which ought to know since the L.C.C. tuns London. There art' 2.325 miles of streets costing £1,450 a year a mile counting lighting, scavenging and repairs.

On any given day there are -13, (K1D Londoners m hospitals.

Fifty seven, thousand are killed or injured i( year on .London streets. Sixty-six thousand vehicles circle Trafalgar square between 8 a.in. and 8 p.lll. Sixty thousand go, around the .Marble Arch.

London is the resident place of 8,203,912 , people. Every year 5(5,000 arg born and 51,000 die. 'They live on an average of three hours and 12 minutes sunshine a day, are held up by fog 41 days of the year and caught in. the rain 187.

Londoners marry at the rate of 120 a day. Seventeen thousand get drunk enough every year to come into' police court. 'This is one, in 000. 'The number elf lunatics is increasing, there being now 28,0t/J in asylums. Londoners numbering 2,749,000 go to work. More work as shop assistants, lorry drivers and warehousemen than anything else. Nearly 250,000 work in building and public works. 'There are 102,000 working in hotels, public-houses and restaurants, 103.000 in engineering, 12,000 on tho London quays. There are 4,922 public-houses, only one for every 893 people. But every unnn. woman and eliild requires 36.54 gallons of water a day. A rough guess at the area is 2,000 squaiie miles, which includes new suburbs and a few hallowed spots that have been about l’pr some time, in, fact since B.C.