LONDON’S GROWTH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5, 27 April 1914, Page 4

LONDON’S GROWTH.

A contemporary publishes some interesting comparisons between modern London and the London of sixty years ago which are culled Irom a statistical abstract issued by the Loudon County Council. The population has grown during that period from a little over 2$ to 41, millions. The greatest orowth of the population took place from 1861 to 1891. The population per acre is now 60, as against 31 sixty years ago. At that time only 617 per thousand residents were actually horn in London; now 694 per thousand are born there. foreigners only counted 11 per thousand then, whereas now they give a proportion of 34. Of London’s foreigners 39,000 are Russian, 24,000 Poles, 14.000 French, 27,000 German, 11,600 Italian, 9000 Austrian and 4000 Dutch, the total foreign population amounting to 153,000. One feature which is most apparent and most hopeful is these statistics is the manner in in these statistics is the manner m which the death-rate has decreased with the growth of the city. Sixtyyears ago pno pie died at the rate of 33 per thousand; now the death-rate is only 13.6. The population of married people has declined irom 22 to 18.6 per thousand, and it is true that the birthrate has undergone a decrease from- 33 per thousand to as low as 14.5, hut it must be borne in mind, bn the other side, that the infantile mortality of sixty years ago was as high as 154 per thousand, whereas now it is only 91. Twelve hundred persons 'die in modern London every week, 800 are married, and 2000 children are born. Statistics relating to persons over 15 years of ago show that of men-600,000 are unmarried, 791,000 married, and 75.000 widowed; and of the women 730.000 are unmarried, 809,000 married, and 200,000 widowed. Three thousand persons are in lunatic asylums, 4800 in prisons, and 55,000 in workhouses.