Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-08-29
| From the Night Side Of London.
- London and its Pe0nIe.

146 ,A49 were Under 5years Of age and
l ,255,67S females, of whom I47, 173
were under years Of age. The !unnArri-
ed males were 60, $50; do. females 1885,
81 l the married men were 500, 098, the
wives 403,Ta1 1.-THE Willows ITO, 076. On
the night Of the census there were %, 598
husbands whose wives were not with theih j,
and SO, 231 wives mourning their absent
lords. Last year the number of children
born in London was sc, S33 : in the same
period Sc, 1856 persons died,
The Registrar General assumes that, with
the additional births, and by the fact of SOL
diers and sailors returning from the seat of
war, and 81 persons engaged in peaceful
pursuit settling in the capital, sustenancc,
clothing, and koase accommodation must
now be found in London for seboat.. 60. 900
inhabitants more than it contained at the
end of 1855. Think of that--the popula-
ton of a large city absorbed in London, and
no perceptible inconvenience occasioned by
it! Houses are still to let; there are still
the usual tickets hung up in windows in
quiet neighborhoods, intimating that apart
ments furnished for the use of single gem
tlemen can be had within; the country still
supplies the town with meat and Bread and
We hear of no starvation in consequence of
deficient supply London is the healthiest
city III the world. During the last ten years
the annual deaths have been on the average
20 to | 600 of the population, in 1856 the
proportion was % to 900; yet, in spite OF
this. half Of It's deaths that happen on an
average in London between the ages of 20
and 40 are from consumption and diseases
of the respiratory organs.
The Registrar traces this to the state OF
the streets. lie says: There can be no
doubt that the dirty dust suspended in the
air that the people of London breathe, often
iexeites diseases of respiratory organs.
The dirt in the streets is produced and
ground, aow b. ';hnumeralle horses. omni-
buses and carriages, and titen beat up iii
fine dust, which fills the mouth and inevi-
ttably enters the air passages in large guam
titles. The dust <:sctsam5ved every day
but saturated with water ii the great thor
Iouehfarcs, sometimes ferments IN damp
weather, and at other times asccnds again
under the heat of the Summer sun as at
mospheric dust -
London, says Henry MAYHEM, may be
safely asserted to be the most denseiy popu-
lated city in all the world containing one
fourth more people than 'Pekin, and two
thirds mere than Paris-more than twice as
many as Constantinople times as
many as St. Petershurg-fiye times as many
as Vienna, or New York, or Madrid
nearly seven times as many as. Berlin
/ eight times as many as Amsterdanl-nine
time as many as Rome-lifteen times as
many as Copennagen--and seventeen times
as many as Stockholm. London" says
Horace Say, "e'est ane prortnce eoHcerte dc
maisoas." 1t covers an area of I'D square
nises in extent,.or 70,029 statute acres,
and contains 327 39l houses. Annually
4, 000 new houses are IN erection for up
ward Of 10, 600 new corners. The coutiu-
Goss9,line Of buildings stretching from Hol-
loway 10 Camberwell. lis said to be twelve
miles long. It is computed the buildings
were set in a row they would -cach across
the whole of England ana France, fgctl
York to the pyreneas. S-
London has 10, $50 distinct Streets,
f
rows. buildings, places, lanes, courts, alleys
News ya-ds rents. The paved streets o.
London, according to 4 ret.;rn published ii
1896, number over ) coo and exceed 3 00(
miles in length; the cost of this pared rcal
ing was fourteen millions, and the repairs
cast ( l 500, 600 per annum. London con
tasns 800 miles of Gas pipes, with CAPT
tai Of nearly "a ,o9e 900 spent in the prep
aratian of gas. The cost Of gas-lighting il
half million. 1t has $50, 600 lights, ant
5000, 900 cubic feet of gas is burned ev
cry night. Last year olong these streets tht
enormous sum of upwards of eighty millions
Of gallons Of water rushed for the supply O.
the inhabitants, being nearly double what il
was in f645. q.
Mr.. Mayhem says, i. he entire people o.
the Capitol were TO be drawn up in march
ing order, two and two, the length of tht
great army of Londoners would be no les,
than six hundged and seventy miles, an,
surprising them 20 move at the rate of tire,
miles per hour, It would regFise more thar
nine days and nine nights fer the average
population to pass by. To accommodate
this crowd one hundred and twenty-five
thousand vehicles pass through the thor.
oughfares in the ceHrse Of twelve hours
three thousand cabs, one thousand omnibus
es. Ten thousand private and Job carria
ges ard carts ply daily in the streets, tire,
thousand conveyaIces enter the metropolis
daily from the surrounding country.
Speak ing generally, Tcnnyson tells US
Livery minute dies man.
Every minute one is born"
In London Mr. May hew calculates 1863 PEG
pie die daily, and baby is born every tiv,
minutes The number Of persons says thu
Registrar General, who died in 1856, il
ri public institutions, such as york hou
sos and hospitals, was 10, 36l. II is real
~ shocking to think, and deep stigma OF
the people-or on the artificial arrange
ments of society, by which SO much povcrt.
, is perpetuated-that nearly one person on
Of five, who died last year, closed his day
under a roof provided by law, or.,publ
charity. 1t IS calculated 500 people ar
drowned in the Thames every year I,
the first week Of the present year Their
were five deaths from intenperanee alone
How much wretchedness lies in these tN-
facts-for the deaths from actual intempef
anee bear but small proportion to tn
deaths induced by the immoderate use O
, intoxicating liquors /; and of the 500 drown
ed, by far the largeet class, we have ever,
reason to believe, are of the number Of whom
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