LONDON’S POPULATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17027, 12 August 1929, Page 12

LONDON’S POPULATION

NEARLY 8,000,000 PEOPLE ALMOST EQUAL TO BELGIUM LONDON, June 29. Is the time approaching when London will have outgrown itself ? ' The'question is suggested by the information contained in the London County Council’s "“Statistical Abstract, 1918-1927,” just published. The Administrative County of London, the area of jurisdiction of the County Council, has a. population comparable with that of Scotland, while that of Greater London is almost identical with that of Belgium. The iigures are:— Administrative County (estimated 1928), 4,502,000; Scotland, 4,893,000. Greater London (estimated 1926), 7,805,870 (mid-1928 estimate, 7,849,000); Belgium, 7,874,601. Some of the metropolitan boroughs ,a re as large as provincial towns. Paddington, for instance, with an area of 2.12 square miles, had in the middle of 1927 an estimated population of 142,700. Brighton at the same date numbered 141,100 burgesses. The annual toll of street accidents in London is now nearly. equivalent to the casualties in a big battle. Indeed, the total number of killed and injured in the streets of London during 1927 — 49,105 —was more than live times "that, of the total English and German casualties at the Battle of, Jutland. The total number killed was 1056. Of these, 977 were killed bv motor vehicles. The toll of street accidents has increased and is .still increasing enormously. During the last 10 years the travel habit seems to have developed. In 1918 Londoners made only 385 railway, tram-way-cail, or omnibus iourneys per head of population ; in 1927 the number bad risen to 476.