A recent census of the homeless of London showed that 60 men and 18 women were bring in the street, 14,070 people were found in licensed common lodginghoirses. and 1057-men, 137 women, and 17, children in shelters and labour homes not: licensed as lodging-houses.
, The world's largest telephone exchange —really the home of three automatic exchanges—is toi be housed in London. There win be 40,000 telephone lines, and the electrical, power necessary for the upkeep of this colossal exchange would light a town of -30,000 people.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 293, 7 September 1931, Page 5
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