CHANGES IN LONDON
WHAT STATISTICS SHOW la London a better place to live in than it was ten years ago? asks a London newspaper. Ratepayers are putting their hands into their pockets tor over £10,000,000 a year more than they were in 1920 for social services. Are they getting their money’s worth in improvements? The only way to find an answer, says.the writer, is to comb the Yellow Book, entitled "A Statistical Abstract," published by the London County Council. Containing 100 pages of solid statistics without a line of comment, it gives a complete comparative figure picture of London for the past ten years, which at first glance looks like a Chinese puzzle. The Yellow Book shows that, in spite of the fact that London is growing bigger, there is less crime and disease. On the other hand, it reveals that the metropolis is far more dangerous to live in, and the big increase in suicides indicates that it is proving too nerve-racking for many. Facts that seem to suggest that London is improving are: infant mortality rates are over 50 per cent, lower than ten years ago. Londoners are living longer, hundreds more people living to 85 and over. Greater use of libraries; last year 14,512,112 books being borrowed, compared with 6,001,390 ten years ago. Large increase of visitors to art galleries and museums. Vast improvement in housing, 35,000 new dwellings having been built by the London County Council alone since 1919. Less beer, wine and spirits being drunk, and more tea is consumed. Bigamy is on the wane. Ou the other hand the following facts have to be noted; The yearly death roll of the streets has jumped in ten years from 688 to 1,237, and the annual number of iniured from 19,027 to 54,461. Suicides have increased from 400 lo 600 last year. Many more fires occur, and last year there were 3,000 more false alarms than in 1920. The number of deaths by violence has slightly increased. Rates have gone up. Lastly, the report reveals that Loni don has a debt of £145,786,463.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 29
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347CHANGES IN LONDON Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 29
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