New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-12
THE GREAT MODERN BABYLON

males. Of whom lag, 449 were under year, OF sse'
The unmarried males were 670. $50; ditto 'eu .'
735 81; the married men were 3y9CSo; the 49,
4O973l; the widowers were 7,OS9, the "'Ho"''
ll0O76. 90 sos hr,.
On the night Of the census there were ~ 9'o np S1
bands whose wives were not with them, anu ''~
wives mourning their absent lords. ,,
Last year the number Of children born IN LVI td
was sc SE3 In the period So 80 persohs ue t
The Registrar enera assumes that with the SUI
tional births and by the fact Of soldiers ana saIo
turning from the seat OF war, and OF persons engage
in peaceful puru settling in the capital su'tenanIe
clothing, and house accommodation must no" oe
found in London for above 10000 inhabitants ino'e
than il contained at the end OF 1879. .L
.orbed in London, and no percephble inconvenience
occssioned by il Houses still 10 let; tnere orc
st the usual tickets hung up in the windows IN
neighborhoods, intimating that apartments iaih
for the Of single gentlemen can be had WITHIN ne
country still supplies the town with meat and ereaa
and We hear of no starvation in consequence OF den'
Glen, supply.
London il the healthiest city in the world.
During the last ten years the annual deaths have
been on TIE average Is to 900 Of the population; IN
1856 the proportion was - to l000 yet, in spite OF
this half of the deaths that happen average IN
London, between the ages of 10 and 40, are from con-
sumption and diseases of the respiratory organs
Tie Registrar this to the state of the streets
He saws: There can be no doubt that the dirty dust
suspended in the air that the people of London breathe,
often eIc,es diseases Of the respiratory organs Inc
Vulnerable horses, onnibuses and carriages and then
AT up in fine dust which fills the mouth and nevi-
tably enters the air passages in large quantities The
dust is not removed every day but saturated with
waer in the great thoroughfares, sometimes fernens
in damp weather; and at other times ascends again
under the heat of the as atmospheric dust
"Iondon," says Henry Mayhem, may be safely
asserted be the most densey populated city in all
the world: containing one fourth more people than
Pekin, and two thirds more than Paris, more than
twice as many Constantinope, four times us many
as ST. Petersburg, five times us many as vienna, or
New-York, or Madrid nearly seven times as many as
Berlin, eight times a. many az Amsterdam nlne tunes
AZ many Rome, fifteen times as many ~ Copenha-
gen and seventeen times many as Stockholm
London" says Horace jay, "cest une province
cOuyeIte de maiseDs.
II covers area Of ~ square miles IN extent, or
rs O.9 statute acres and contains 327 ,39l houses.
Annually 600 new houses in course Of erection
for upward Of 40 900 new corners.
The continuous line Of buildings stretching from
Holloway to Chamberwel is said to be II miles long
II j. computed that if the buildings were set IN
row they would reach across the whole Of England
and France from York to the Pyrenees.
London has 10 $50 distinct streets squares crcuses,
crefcents, terraces, villas, rows, buildings, places,
lanes courts ALLEYS, news, yards, and rents.
The paved streets Of London, according TO return
published in 1856 number 5000 and exceed 2OO0
miles in length; the cost of this paved reading was
El4G00,GO0, and the repairs cost Il ,oOO,ooo per
aunum. .
London contains 900 miles of gas pipes, with
capital Of nearly 5000 spent in the preparation OF
gas. ,. ~.
SEQ OU0 lights; aud l3,WUUuu cupic icet vi gus ate
burned every night.
Las, wear along these streets the quantity
Of upward Of S0,U0G0 Of gallons Of water rushed for
the supply Of the inhabitants, being nearly double
what il was in 1915.
Mr. Mayhem says: If the entire people Of the capital
were 10 be drawn up in marching order, two and
two the length of the great army Of Londoners would
l.oa shap ttt,s DpsIuO a
move at The of three mles an hour, 1t would re-
quc more than nine days and nights for the average
population TO pass by.
a accommodate this crowd, l2j COO vehicles pass
through the thoroughfares in the course of II hours
1900 cabs 600 omnibuses 10000 private job car
iaees and carts ply daily in the streets 5000 convey
ancee enter the metropolis daily from the surrounding
country. Speaking generally, Tennyson tells US:
Every minute dies
Every minute one is born"
In London, Dir. Mayhem calculates, 1859 people die
daily, and q babe is born every tive minutes. The
number of persons says the Registrar-General, who
died in 1886 in ll6 public Institutions, such as work
houses aud hospitals was lO,3Sl
II is really king to think, and deep stigma on
the people the artificial arrangements OF society,
by which so much poverty isperPeiuated, that nearly
one uerou out Of five who died last year, closed his
davr under roof provided By law or public charity.
Ii IS calculated $50 people art drowned in the Thames
every year. In the first week OF the present year
there were FIVE deaths from ntemperance alone. How
deaths from actual intcmpcraDce bear but small pro-
ortion a. the deaths induced by the imnoderate use
Of intoxicating liquors; and of the sou drowned by
lar the larger cass we have every reason 10 believe,
are of The number of whom Hood wrote:
Mad with lit, : history.
Glad to deaths mystery.
Swift 10 b. hurried
Anywhere, anywhere,
Of the wur.dh
According 10 the last reports, there were in London
43 Geo vaglauts admitted Ill one year into the casual
wards Of the VOL houses.
Here We have always in our midst l01 burglars, 10
hons. breakers 50 highway robbers 773 pickpockets
C57 sneak,men or common thieves, ii hOrse-sealers
III doc-,eulers, forgrrs Is corners, 81 uterers of
base coin III swnders, 49, cheats 3i3 receivers of
.toen Goods 97t8 habitual rioters, 2O5 Migrants
writers So bearers Of begging letters
81 pf 1ttutes beside 40 not otherwise described
MAXIM altogether total of l6, goo criminals known
10 tie police.
az UOO per annum the prison population any par
icular Iiue is 1900 costing tor the year tl70 900.
Our juvenile thieves cost Us t3oO piece.
MI. Tnbs calculates the number Of professional
b,rrnrs IN LONDON at 80 600, two-thirds OF whom are
I;ee6 Thirty thousand men, women and children are
n ned in the costeImonger trade; besides We have
according 10 Mr. Mayhew OOO street sellers of green
stuff 90 street sellers OF eatabes and drinkables,
t st,ct sellers Of stationery, OOO street sellers of
other articles " hose receipts are three million sterling
| and whose incomes may be put down at one million.
I.tus extend our survey, and We shall not wonder
that the pubIc houses, and the ginpslaces and the
cas;uo- and the theaters and the penny gas and the
lowest and vest places Of o rsTo[t in London are full
10, III there are - 47e taors 80 SO5 shoemakers
| 3e2S miuners u 2lO seamstresses 1859 bonnet
makers; and ,217 cap-nakers
What hard wretched WORK II theirs
There are two worlds IN London, with a gulf be-
tveen,I rch and the poor. We have glanced al ths
atter; for the sake Of contrast let look at the for
mer. Emerson rays the wealth Of London determines
prices all over the ODE. In 1917 the money coined
in the Mint was 60 5S 4iV IN god tl29 '5O 10 silver,