THE PRESENT CONDITION OF LONDON.
It has 4,788,657 inhabitants, Of its adult population, according to cen - sus returns, more than one-third were born fn the country. A birth takes place on an average every three minutes. A death takes place on an average five minutes. About 247 persons every day are added to its population, or 1,729 every week. Last year 86 miles 384 yards of houses were added to its streets. . It contains upwards ot a million of habitual neglectors of public worship, It has sixty miles of shops open every Sunday. It has foreign population roughly estimated at 271,000. There are 11,128 public-houses,
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 29, 2 January 1884, Page 3
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105THE PRESENT CONDITION OF LONDON. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 29, 2 January 1884, Page 3
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