Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-24

Capital Of Great Britain II y IN Popu-
lation at b 50
BIRTH AND OEA ATE BOTH LOWER
Race Suicide Shows No Alarming symp-
toms in the Worlds Metropolis
INSANITY AND POVERTY ON THE INCREASE
Different Parts of City Show Strange Vari-
ation in Health
MUNICIPALITY ENTERS LINES OF TRADE
County Councils Report shows that
Many Industries Are Now BeiRE
Pursued by the County
hoard.
INSANITY ANS POVERTY on THE INCREASE
MUNICIPALITY ENTERS LINES OF TRAOI

Pursued by the County
board.
LONDON, Sept. S-(Special Cablegram /
to The Bee.)-Two hundred years ago when !
Kensington was rural village and Blooms |
bury a favorite suburb for duelists some
wise citizens met in conference to debate |
how to prevent the intolerable and un-
ceasing growth Of London.
They could have discovered no pfan, for
London is still growing and spreading out
ward and upward with cumulative rapidity. !
Each year It sucks in fresh villages. each
year it's central streets mount higher and
higher. The new volume of London Sta
tistics' a ponderous volume of 654 pages
published by the London county council,
presents a mass of figures almost over
wheiming.
Greater London today contains 80 per
cent more people than the whole of Canada
and 10 per cent more than Australasia from
British New Guinea to Tasmania. The in
habitants of Norway and Switzerland COM
bined come to little more than three-quar-
ters of London's great family. Each year
the capital receives an increase equal to
the total residents in Middlesbor ough.
Allowing for the growth since the last
outer London today cannot be much less
than 100000. The increase is centrifugal in
distribution. The population of the city
has declined so per cent in a century and
for every five people sleeping there in 1895
there is only one today. The county of
London has i'm the same time increased six
fold' but the increase in inner London has
now almost reached it's limit. The main
growth is in what is now known as 'the
outer ring the great district outside the
county, but under the metropolitan police.
There the population has multiplied 50 per
cent in ten years and is showing a greater
proportionate and actual gain each year.
No Sign of stopping.
This growth shows no signs of stopping
| The number of foreign born people living
| in London has more than doubled I'm
twenty years. leaving out of count the
children Of foreigners born in this country
The foregn-born people in London today
far exceed the combined populations of the
two counties of Herfordshire and Rutland.
J The birthrate of London has steadily
diminished, being S6.55 in 1867 and only
2s.4 in 1903. The effect of this has how
ever, beer counteracted by a decline in the
death rate, which in the year covered BY
these returns reached the amazingly low
figure of 1872 per 1000.
| The ratable value of London is rising
even faster than the population, but this
may be as much due to the eager desire
| OF the local authorities to augment their
incomes as to real increase in values
| The number OF municipal services for the
people is multiplying. In recent years Lon
| don has taken over its own tramways. it
now owns its own water supply, public
steamers run on the Thames, electric sup
ply is more and more drifting into the
hands Of the borough councils and the total
OF public baths, libraries. wash houses and
parks is ever growing. One borough, Cam
berwell. row boasts of its own municipal
Turkish baths.
The most ominous features OF the re-
turns are the disproportionate deaths OF
young children In various districts the
growth OF lunacy. the increase OF pauper-
ism, the large proportion of unpublished
crimes and the heavy rise in debt
Some vital Statistics.
In Shoreditch out of every 1000 children
born III die before they are a year old
In Hampstead, out OF the same number
only eighty-eight die, This one fact gives
the different conditions OF health in east
and west more vividly than mass of de.
tailed comparisons. In the county of Lon
don the deaths average one In each sever
, minutes, day and night, all the yeaI
around.
London is conspicuously behind most OF
the leading foreign capitals in freedom
from the leading epidemic diseases Oul
death rate from these is twice as high a.
that of most OF the great European capi
; tails, st. Petersburg, however, leaves Lon
, don behind doubling our average It Ii
notable that shoreditch. which has unhap
/ PLY pre-eminence for its infant death rate
2 also ranks as one of the two leading epi
, demic centers Of London. Poplar is tn,
I other. There are more than Ave times a.
many deaths proportionately from cpl
denies in shoreditch than there are fl
|, Hampstead.
: The most healthy suburb in London
Hampstead, its death and disease return
being far below those of any other. excep
:, It's friendly rival Lewisham Next to these
a but with distance between. come wands
worth and Stoke Newington F1nsbury ha
n the highest death rate, with Holborn an
Shoreditch following after For every seve
. persons who die ia Hampstead thirteen. a
, proportion TO population, die in Finsbury.
Many Paupera.
The number OF psupers, both outdoor an
indoor, grows year after year There ar
' no fewer than $4,000 paupers and paupe
lunatics charsable to the rates. taking IN
figures Tor one day as a criterion Thi
shows an increase for four years OF owe
1900. Londoners are paying about ls shi
n lings per head for the relief OF the poor. 1
e Lancaster the cost is less than 6 shilling
Il per head. Even this enormous relief doe
J. not meet the problem OF poverty.
d A census OF the streets on one winte
II night in central London alone showed this
1 ma chi
n walking the roadways homeless or sleepin
Is on staircases. under doOrways or In archie
"A These figures are so appalling that they a
Al most defy comment.
Is The hgures OF county council expenditui
&c show a steady growth OF activity and e,
Is penditure. The police returns reveal Il
a amazing fact that out OF 20 ia crimes know
4 by the. police 10 nave been committed on
II l4,4OI persons were arrested and only lOl
,e convictions secured. In other words OF
n crime out OF every two In London goes al