THE GROWTH OF "THE VILLAGE."
An interesting paper has been handed to the select committee on the London | water supply, giving details of the increase in the number of housea from January, 1873, to December, 1879. The total number of houses in the districts of the eight London water companies at the end of last year was 573,792, being an inorease of 81,787 -from the commencement pf 1873. The years showing the largest increases are 1869, 1873, 1878, when the. numbers increased respectively 21,720, 14,980, 14,954; in 1876 the inorease in the number of houses was 9763, while in 1874, 1875, and 1877 the increases were only about 7000. The distriots in which the increase is largest are' Lambeth, where during the last seven years the numer has increased by 17,825; East London, where the increase has been 17,267 •, and the district supplied by the Southwark and Yauxhall Company,,where the increased by about 8000 during the s last seven years, with the exception of Chelsea, where the increase is only 1791; of which, number 1390, were added to the district in October of 1879.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3685, 16 October 1880, Page 2
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184THE GROWTH OF "THE VILLAGE." Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3685, 16 October 1880, Page 2
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