The Village.
The London correspondent of the New Zealand Times writes:—Colonel Henderson, chief of police has just issued his report, and it may be interesting to your readers to know that: last year (1881), 26,170 new houses, covering 86 miles, were erected in the metropolitan area, which now contains no less than 4.788,657 persons—the largest bumber ever packed within a 15«inile radius. Out of this number 179 were absolutely lost— what became of them none, can tell; but doubtless the 54 bodies found dead and buried without identification, formed part of the number. Three times as many were killei in the streets of London as fell at TeKel-Kebir, and ten times the number of wounded, the figures being 252 and 3400. There were 27,228 persons charged as drunk and disorderly, a decrease of 8
per cent since 1880, though the population has increased 80,000. The temperance movement is felling, the proportion of con* victions per IC3O in 1878 being 7"80, but in 1881 only 5 69. In the face of these astonishing figures we ask in vain, when will London cease to increase, and to what proportions will it ultimately extend ?
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4359, 20 December 1882, Page 2
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191The Village. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4359, 20 December 1882, Page 2
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