LONDON FACTS AND FIGURES.
The City Press publishes the following interesting facts and figures of London :—: — It appears that in the metropolis there are 101 hospitals, in which one and a quarter millions of people are relieved, and which dispense out door relief to four millions annuilly. Twenty-five per 1000 of the population are paupers, and are relieved at a cost of nver two and a half millions sterling. It also seems that there are many more lunatic women than men. Cabs have increased during the last ien years from 10,000 to uver 19,000. 14,478 children were lost in London last year. Greater London contains an area of 448,334 »cres. The population for this year is given as 5 ; 199, 166. In 1884 there were 11.705 licensed publichouses, and 15,519 males and 9618 females were charged with drunkenness. In the same year there wsre 265 persons killed and 3592 maimed by street accidents, and 354 suicides. There were 20,667 articles loat in public conveyances, of which 11.248 were restored. There are 407 newspapers published in London.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1217, 27 January 1886, Page 3
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176LONDON FACTS AND FIGURES. Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1217, 27 January 1886, Page 3
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