GREATER LONDON
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
INTERESTING STATISTICS
British Official' Wireless.
EUGBY, 11th; March.:, The vast machinery of public ai» ministration in London is explained ia a volume of London statistics.issued to* day. The volume contains irinumer* able interesting facts about London, la' the administration of the county ther» are 141 authorities, and in outer Loudon districts, which together with th# county make up Greater London, thera are somo further 300 authorities. Thaj number of persons, excluding officials, helping to administer the local government of London and its neighbourhood is -10,000, all unpaid, except a few; chairmen and Mayors. The gross ex« penditure of London local authorities amounts to over £56,000,000 annually. In the great populous area open spaces maintained by the authorities amount to 48 square miles, tho County Council maintaining 977 schools. Children unfit for receiving instruction at ordinary! elementary schools arc' educated ft* others specially provided to cope with! their mental or physical disabilities* Tho council maintains 26 secondary! schools and 19 technical schools, and makes substantial grants-in-aid to 52 other secondary schools, 10 polytech* nies, and 16 technical institutes.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 59, 13 March 1929, Page 9
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181GREATER LONDON Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 59, 13 March 1929, Page 9
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