The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-05
Christians and Jews in London.

4 census of the attendance Of the Jews
Of London on their synagogues taken
by the Daily Ne1rs on the 18th of April,
showed it n be proportionally some
what more than that of Christians.
In London the Jewish population is
computed by the official Year Book of
the race to be about 100000. In New
York the number, as computed by the
Federation of Churches, was about Co.,
600 two years ago, but since that time it
must have increased by at least 10 per
cent, SO that if we estimated it now at
70O,OOO We should not be far away from
the fact, probably. That is, out of the
total population of the London Parlia-
mentarv boroughs, 4,jl9, S3S, the Jews
are less than Ia per cent, while in New
York they approach one-fifth of the
whole population.
In London there are 65 synagogues.
while in New York on the East Side alone
there are 263 synagoglles The attend
ance on the London synagogues on the
18th of April, or the first day of Passover
week, was counted by the Daily NGrs as
-U,Dls, VI tDoll III vi VIC lottti cCN .Sll
population. In the boroughs so far
canvassed. with an aggregate population
of s,569,1ls. the church attendance was
enumerated as about in Az The CEN
sus of church attendance in New York
last November did not extend to the syna-
gogues, and the Jewish Year Book Of
this country gives no statistics as to it
or as to the number of Jews on the syna-
gogue rolls. The inference we draw from
such facts as 10 the subject as are pre-
sented in the report of the Federation of
Churches and from complaints we find
in Jewish papers is that neglect of the
synagogues is very extensive among the
jews of New York.
1t is noteworthy that while in the Chris
tan churches of both London and New
York the women and children worship
pers far exceed in number the men, in
the London synagogues the majority of
the attendants are men. On April II,
out of total synagogue attendance of
26,6l". the number of men was l5,l57
and of women and children II, 45S, 4,375
being women and 1850 children. OF the
total attendance Of AL ,63l on Christian
churches in New York, counted last No
vember, only l39,99l were men to 81 GAO
women, or only 81 per cent.
1t is interesting to compare the relative
church attendance in London as it is now
with that Of ffty-thrce wears ago. An
official census Of the church attendance
was taken on March 30 of the year 1851.
Tie population OF London was then
1852 ,236, and the total church attendance
was 504,8li, made up thus: Anglican,
276,SS5: Nonconformist. 1881; Roman
Catholic @G,334; other bodies. 5,374. In
1903 out ola total population, in twenty
ono borouGhs of 3,5G9l ls, the total at
tendance is S09,sS6, of which 1858. 500 is
Anglican, 3i2,lsl Nonconformist, 7O,O9o
Roman Catholic and IS, 800 other bodies.
Proportionately to the population,
therefore, tho church attendance in Lon
don was about the same in 1851 as it is
now slightly less; but whereas in 1851
the Anglican exceeded the nom Anglican
in 1903 it is less by 92,efe in the bor-
oughs canvassed. Anglicanism, there
fore, has declined relatively in the period.
Roman Catholic attendance has increased
from 1864 in 1851 to 7O,095 in 1909.
The statistics Of the present church
\ census ipl London. however, must be
taken wath many allowances for possible