Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-07-09
The Great Modern Babylon.

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sus there were 2 1859 ,2s6 persons of both sexes
init; ,l06,55S males, Of whom I4e .449 were.
under years Of age. The unmarried males
67O,38O ditto fema les, 1886, ,s7i; tlfe married
men were 309 ,09s; the wives, 400, ,73l the
widowers were 37,OSs, the widows, 1lO,U79.
On the night of the census there were 26-
OBS husbands whose wives were not with them
and 59,23l wives mourning their absent lords,
Last year the number of children born in
London was SO ,sss In the same period 5e :
/ 7S6 persons died
Riiss gislsaa aeneral assusIass asssvi,I sthel
additional births, and by the fact of soldiers
sailers returning from the seat of war, and of
persons engaged in peaceful pursuits settling
in the capital, sustenance, clothing, and house
accommodation must now be found in London
for above 10000 inhabitants more than it con-
tained at the end of 1856
Think of that-the population of a large
city absorbed in London, and no perceptible in
convenience occasioned by it Houses are
still to let; there are still the usual tickets
hung up in the windows in quiet neighborhoods,
intmating that apartments furnish for the use
of single gentlemen can be had within the
country still supplies the town with meat and
bread, and we hear of no starvation in conse-
quence of deficient supply,
London is the healthiest city in the world.
During the last ten years the annual deaths
have been on the average 25 TO 900 of the
population; 1856 the proportion vas % to
l 900 yet, in spite of this, half of The deaths
that happen on an average in London, between
the ages of 90 and 4O are from consumption
and diseases of the respiratory organs
The Registrar traces this TO the state of the
streets. He says There can be no doubt that
the dirty dust suspended in the air that tn e
people of London BREATHE often excites dis
ease of the respiratory organs. The dirt of
tie streets is produced and ground now by in.
Vulnerable horses, omnibuses and carriages
and then beat up in fine dust, which fills the
mouth and inevitably enters the ar passages in
large quantities. The dust is not removed
every day, bat saturated with water in the
great thorouehfares, someIimes ferment in damp
weather; and at other times ascends again un
der the heat of the sun as atmospheric dust.
, London" says Henry Mayhem, :. may be
safely asserted to be the most densey popula
ted city in all the world containing one-fourlt
, more people than Pokin, and two-thirds NOR,
! lEan Paris, more than twice as many as Con
s;anfinople, four times as many as ST. Peters
burgh, five times as many AS Vienna, or New
, York or Madrid, nearly seven times as many a:
, Berlin, eight times as many as Rome, ifiee
times as many as Copenhagen, and seventeen
, times AS many as Stockhalm.''
" London says Horace Jay c'est un
Y province couverte de maisons"
= 1t covers an area Of l22 square miles in ex
tent or rs, ,029 statute acres, and contains 327,
! 39l houses.
Annually 1000 new houses are in course o
4 erection for upward of 10000 new comers.
r The continuous line of buildings stretch in,
4 from Holloway 10 Chamberwe is sa id to bt
twelve miles long.
f 1t is computed that if the buildings were Sc
e in row they would reach across the whole @
D England and France, from York TO The Ply
0 renees
8 London has 10 500 distinct streets squsres
s circuses, crescens, terraces, villas, rows
P buildings places, lanes, courts, alleys. news
s yards, and rents.
n The paved streets of London, according to
o return published in 1856, number over O0(
!. and exceed 1900 mics in length; the cost
o this paved roadng was ETA 600 900, and tn
e repairs cost e. 800 900 per annum.
h London contains 1900 miles of gas p pe.
e with capital of nearly GA 900 900 spent
the preparation Of gas,
e The cost of gas lighting is half a m illior
U 1t has 100000 lights; and $4,000, 900 cub
& feet of gas are burned every night.
rs Last year along the streets the enormou
u quantity of upward of so, 100000 Of gallon
, of water rushed for The supply of the inha
. ilans, being nearly double what it was
le 'lS45.
g Mr. Mayhem says If the entire people
is the capit.l were 10 be drawn up in marchir
10 order, two and two, the length of the gre
90 army of I.ondoners would be no less than 6.
u m lies, and supposing them to move at the ra
of three miles an hour, it would require mo
a than nine days and nights for the average po
:. ulaion to pass by.
ip To accommodate this crowd 1876 900 vehc
pass through the ihoroughfares in the course
IL hours; 900 cabs 900 omnbusses 100
40 private job carriages and CARTS ply daily in t
ef streets 900 conveyances enter the metropol
,ei daily from the surrounding country. Speaki
,s- genera Iy, .Tennyson tells us:
"o Every minute dies man.
Dg Every minute one is born.,
us In London, Mr.. Mahew Calculates, 1863 p
no pie die daily and babe is born every
"" minutes. The number of persons says,
Fh- Registrar General, who died in 1856, in
gs' public institutions, such as warehouses and h
le' pitas, was 1881.
!, 1t is really shocking to thiak, and a d
nv :, stigma are on the people or on the artificial
11 rangements of society by which SO much P
~ crty is perpetua,ed, that nearly one person
'"0 of five, who died last year, closed bis days
." der roof provided by law or public charity.
'"' is calculated 500 people are drowned in
.n'' Thames every year. In the first week of
'"- present year there were Ave deaths from
'ne temperance alone. How much wre,ehedn
40 lies in these TWO facls---for the deaths from
tua iniemperance bear but small proportion
,wn the deaths induced by the immoderate use