The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-08-30
|LONDON'S AMAZING SIZE.
CITY so LARGE THAT NO ONE
REALLY KNOWS THE TOWN.
Insured Value $4,s75,ooo, 10000, 600
Entitled to Vote Out of a PopuIa-
ton of $751; ,ooo-Birth Rate DecIln-
L. aIc. AAanniannn Il.

tion of $751; ,o0o-Birth Rate DecIln-
ing, also Marriages.
A correspondent writes as follows
from London:
The statement has been made that
there is not a soul in any line of bust
ness in London that can tell COM
pletely about his n level Of interest.
London is too large to know all its
ms and outs. The greater city is one
of tremendous. appalling figures.
No bank messenger knows all the
banks. No cabman knows all the
theaters and places of entertainment.
No policeman knows all the police,
tAs county, and the coroners' courts.
No news agent knows all the publica-
tons. No fiddler knows all the bands.
No gourmet knows all the restaurants.
No postman knows all the postofices.
There is too much London to be
learned in an ordinary lifetime. Re
porters who have been visiting every
corner of the metropolis for years find
it necessary to look up their directions
Ou LuC AldPI anu OfCh bhOh INV ONNS
are that they will be in doubt as to
the best means of getting there.
Conceive the ~bewildermnt of a dis
trict messenger boy if you asked him
to take you for a stroll through the
parishes of st. Andrew Hubbard, st.
Bene't Fink. st. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
st. Faith under st. Paul's, st.
Katharine Cree, st. Margaret Pattens,
st. Martin Organ, St. Margaret Moses.
st. acknowledgements, st. Peter-le
Poor, st. Vedast Foster-lane, st. Mar
tin Pomeroy, st. Andrew Understand,
st. Magnus the martyr and st. An
tholin Cordwainer.
Nor a men of affairs who sit on
The London county council and write
books on the government Of the met
ropolis claim that their knowledge is
In any degree exhaustive. If they know
the powers and the limits of control
of the borough council the odds are
That they are ignorant of the liberties
Of the freemen of the city.
These thoughts are suggested by
another glance at the ponderous vol
Inc of London statistics just issued
oy the county council.
Turn where he will through the 900
pages of the book, the student of af-
fairs is bound to discover some fact
Of which he was ignorant before. 1t
may be heavy and important, it may
be suggestive, it may be merely curl
BUS, but whatever else it is it is new.
The immigration to London is the
first item which calls for attention.
The metropolis increases its popula-
lion exclusive of births at the rate OF
about $4,000 per. annum. The total
population Of London was increased
by net immigration from the country
and abroad by 162,899 persons in 1881
1891 and 217,942 persons in 1S91-19O1.
Of these over 20 percent are foreign
born. The metropolis now contains a
foreign born population of over 1885,
300 aliens.
The total population of central Lon
Ion in 1901 numbered 4,536,541. OF
these there were 1894, 456 females, as
against 2,142,085 males. Thus far fe-
males in the metropolis exceeded the
males by 253,371, there being 1,118
females to every 1000 males, as
against 1116 for every 1000 at the CEN
sus of 1891.
The total population of Greater
London" which includes the areas of
the City and Metropolitan police and
every parish of which the whole Is
within Is miles of Charing Cross or of
which part is within IL miles of Char
ing Cross" amounts to 6,5s1,4O2.
Children born in the metropolis
during 1901 number 1928 which
works out at 20 per 1000 of the popu-
Iation. The deaths numbered 1924,
Or about II per 1000. It will thus be
seen by an easy calculation not to be
found in these statistics that, roughly,
every 40 seconds marks a birth in the
metropolis and that every minute and
1 quarter marks the death of some
one in the same area. The birth rate
for 1901 is the lowest on record. The
marriages for 1901 were $1,000.
Those who are matrimonially in
,lined may feel ONE vague interest
n the fact that the population OF Lon
Ion includes 1,292,594 unmarried
males Gas against 777,363 who are
married) and 72,128 widowed. OF the
women LAOS, 842 were unmarried, as
against 1880 97 married. There were
1857 widows in 1901.
The proper housing of the poorer
classes is so excellent an objective
that one regrets to find it SO expen-
sive. Throughout it's term of exist
ence the county council has spent or
arranged to spend, no less than $21,-
$780, 900 in housing $4,000 persons.
The statistics for 1901 show an in
crease in tenement life. The increase
is from 941,06e to lob, 546 or an in
crease of about 8 percent.
More than two in n room is the
official definition of overcrowding.
Since the previous census (1891) there
has been a decrease in the number
of persons living more than two in one
room of over 100, 900. In 1891 over
crowding applied to 1877 and in 1901
to 1900 percent of the population.
The deaths from street accidents in
1901 were 302. This is a lower figure
than for any of the preceding four
years.
Of the whole of the people of Lon
don over 65 years of age, 81 percent
receive poor relief and that high fig
ure does not include the Migrants or
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