A Missing City.
"There aro some 20,000 persons of all classes and ages missing in London every year," said a Scotland Yard official. "We are generally able to account for 3000 by referring- to the bodies unknown found in the Thames »md other places, and by taking it for granted that the rest' have left London for various reasons* Wo have the majority of the latter on our records as 'wanted.' StiH, even then 17,000 are left. The greater number of these are probably living in London •under assumed names and disguises and in different walks of life. They aro cut off from all intercourse with their relations and former .friends, and have as citizens changed their personalities. \'Jn fact, thsra is a town of many thousand inhabitants in the heart of London which is, to all intents and purposes, missing to the rest of the world, and, if wanted, cannot be found."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2388, 7 December 1899, Page 63
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153A Missing City. Otago Witness, Issue 2388, 7 December 1899, Page 63
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