The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 17.

Bitrwasw the Ist of April and the 4th of No-
vember in the present year, the REOTSTRAR-
GENERAL tells us, one hundred and eight per-
sons were killed by being run over in the streets of
London. This is no exceptional death rate; there
has in recent years been an average annual loss
from this cause of between two and three hundred
lives. If we add to the slain the proportion of
hurt which is usual in war, we shall find that
every year we have casualties not short of • thou-
sand in killed and wounded in the metropolis alone.
Many • bloody battle is fought at lean cost than
this sacrifice which is annually offered up in our
peaceful street'. Nor are the aged, the in-
firm, or the young the only victims to over-
crowded traffic. Of the one hundred and eight
killed since April, fifty-five were between the ages
of ten and sixty-five years, thirty-seven were
children under ten years, sixteen were above sixty-
five years. Last week alone four deaths were re-
corded, and of these two were of men between
thirty and forty, the other two were one
a man, the other a woman, both turned
of seventy. If, again, we recur to the
statistics for the immediate cause of death, we
find that aix persona were run over and killed by
omnibuses, sixteen by cabs and carriages, and
sixty-four by vans, drays, and waggons ; the re-
maining twenty-two were not specilied. It would
seem, then, that it is not so much speed as weight
that is the cause of the accidents. It is the in-
ability to pull up, and the certainty that, once
down, the life is crushed out by the ponderous
vehicle, that swells most of all the list.
Yet though the numbers may startle, no one who
is accustomed to London streets, especially those
in the City, can on reflection wonder at the result.
Most of the inhabitants of this huge town have
occasion at least once a day to pass along a nar-
tow and densely-thronged foot pavement, where
{he jostle of the passengers thrusts the outside
person among the horses' feet and carriage
wheels, or to cross some of those tho-
roughfares where three or four lines of
traffic block the road, and, moving in different
directions, need the eyes of an Argus and the
activity of an acrobat to avoid them. And when
to these constant sources of peril are added the
chances of the pavement being slippery either with
frost or with mud, of an accidental piece of orange-
peel, or of a follow-wayfarer's umbrella or stick
getting between the legs at a critical instant, the
wonder is, not that so many perish, but that so
many escape. It is no doubt the force of training that
enables us to look four ways at once ; to mea-
sure the exact rate of progression of the carriages
three ranks off ; to seize • Hansom horse by the
bridle ; and to take shelter on an omnibus door-
step against the sudden rush of • dray pole, till
by dexterity and judgment we effect a crossing.
But the calculations we thus hourly make are ter-
ribly nice. To carry them into effect with safety
needs coolness, decision, rapidity of movement,
not given to many men, and given to very few
women. The alternative is to wait. But waiting
helps to make a crowd, and so to make matters
worse, and in any case it involves serious loss of
time. So we risk it ;we escape more or lean
narrowly • certain number of times, and, perhaps,
at last our time cornea, and we too appear in the
Registrar's report.
Nothing, unhappily, can be done to abate the
perils of the streets altogether. Bat something
might fairly be done to render them a little less
frequently fatal. It must surely be possible to
arrange matters so that people of ordinary strength
and agility should be able to move along the
streets without having the mind on a perpetual
stretch, and that persons who are aged or infirm
should be able to cross when necessary without the
imminent risk they now run. One proposal has
been made which would at least meet many of the
present inconveniences. It is to erect light iron
bridges fur foot-passengers at the moat frequented
crosaiogs in the moat dangerous streets. These
many persons would, of course, despise, brit they
would be invaluable to all who are not in the
prime of their vigour, and even to many who are
vigorous enough, bet who are not foolhardy, and
who are in haste. It would probably soon be found
that, as a rule, time was saved by taking
at once to the bridge, instead of pausing to look
up and down tho street, and waiting for a favouring
gap in the lines of wheels. But, however this
might be, we are not the lees bound to do some-
thing for those of the community who are less
active or more timid. We =mot forbid them the
streets, and we are not jsati6ed in withholding
from them any practicable means by which the
necessary use they must make of the streets may
be rendered leas hazardous. It is painful enough
to see the terror with which old men, weak men,
or women gaze at the passage their necessities
compel them to make, and the pain is not lessened