FACTS ABOUT THE LITTLE VILLAGE.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3184, 3 May 1879, Page 4

FACTS ABOUT THE LITTLE VILLAGE.

. London (with all its suburbs), covers within the 15 miles radius of Charing: Cross, nearly 700 square ,mi}es. It numbers within these boundaries overs 4,000,000 inhabitants. ;It contains mpre country-born inhabitants than the counties of Devon and Gloucestor combined, or 37 per cent, of its entire population. Every four minutes a birth takes, place in the metropolis, and every six minutes a death. "Within the circle named there are added to the population 205 persons every day, and 75,000 annually. London has 7000 miles of streets, and on an average 28 miles of new streets are opened and 9000 .'new houses are built every year. 1000 j resiejs and 9000 sailors are in port every day. Its crime is also in proportion to it* extent. Seventy-three thousand persons are annually taken into custody by the police, and more than one-third of all the crime in the country is committed within its borders. Thirty-eight thousand persons are annually committed for drunken\iiess by its magistrates. The metropolis comprises considerably upwards of 100,000 foreigners, from every quarter , of the ; globe. It contains more Eoman Catholics than Rome itself, more Jews than the whole of Palestine, more Iriih, than Belfast, more Scotchmen than Aberdeen, anymore Welshmen than Cardiff.