Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-22
NEW YORK NOW FAR
OUTSTR|PS LONDON
344, ,5OB More People Within 19
Miles Of Centre Than in the
Same Area Over There.

The population living within nineteen
miles Of the City Hall on January /,
1920. was greater by 345,5 ,508 than lived
in the Metropolitan Police Distr 81,
known as Greater London, on june 10,
1921, according 10 figures made public |
Yesterday by DR.. Walter Laidlaw, exec
iitive secretary Of the New York City |
1920 Census Committee. /
Statistical information in the hands Of !
the committee reveals that Largest /
New York" as DIR. Laidlaw calls the /
area within 10 miles Of the City Hall,
passed Greater London on September II,
! 1915.
The sections known as Greater London
and Greater New York are not compar-
able as TO population, according TO DR..
Laidlaw, for the reason that the latter
designates municipal entity Of fve
counties while the former designates
suburban as well as urban area.
Area Of Greater London.
! Greater London includes not only Lon
don county within which the London
; County Council has legislative and ad-
I ministrative authority as have the Board
- of Aldermen and Board Of Estimate
2 within the area Of Greater New York,
but it also Includes an Outer Ring" in
3 which the metropolitan police have spe-
e cited powers and duties.
{ 'rhe Greater London suburban area,
irregular in outline, extends as far in
s some directions as nineteen miles from
Y Charing Cross" continued DR.. Laidlaw.
n ut seems therefore proper to include
4 lin order to compare Greater London
2 and New York suburban territory with
n in nineteen miles OF New York City Hall.
when the New York Port Authority
y has developed its functions it may be
natural TO include all the area Of rs
+ operations when comparing municipal
:, London and neighborhood with munici'
a pal New York and neighborhood.
; Meantime, in this comparison, ] us'
- largest New York 10 designate a circle
~ centered at City Hall, whose radiuI
reaches Tottenvillc, Staten Island, aDc
= whose circumference bounds, as subur
:. ban area, part Of Westchester and Mas
y sau Counties on the north and east anC
- the part Of New Jersey which has New
y ark, Jersey City and some other larg
," population centres Immediately ad iacen
10 New York.
For conveniences of comparison DR.
Laidlaw has called suburban New Yor
and suburban New Jersey territory tn
"outer ring" Of Greater New York.
The tables show that Greater London
n meaning London county and the Quite
\ Ring. increased in the thirty years be
y tween 1891 and 1921 by ! .844, 1852 pei
sons. while Largest New York increase
in the ten years from 1900 to 1910 b
1,879,546.
> The County Of London has decrease
at each census since 1901. Its populs
ton was passed by the population
Greater New York on July 4, 1908. Re
nearly fourteen years, legal and mun1c
pal New York has been larger than leg'
Sc municipal London.
L. The population of Largest New Yor
Is on January l, 1920, was 7,820,676. Will
J., that of Greater London on June /!
d 1921, was 7,476.168.
~ The population OF Greater New Hor
on January l, 1920, was ), 5,620,O4 an
le that of London county was 4,4S3, "a!
re The population of the Outer Ring {
D. Greater New York on January l. 1871
ld was 100000, and that of the QUIT
10 Ring of London county was 2,992,s
le on June 10, 1921
sd DR.. Laidlaw pointed 70 the singui,
statistical coincidence that the growt
so of Greater New York from 1900 to 1911
u which was l ,329, ,6Sl persons, was almo
I precisely the same as the growth 1ro
We 1910 to 1920 of Greater New York pll
es the growth of its Outer Ring, whic
lie combined, amounted 20 1923, ,Ol7.-
as New York Times.