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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue XV, 14 April 1900, Page 679

Length of London Streets. —ln an English periodical Mr Percy Edwards tells us that the streets and roads of London measured in 1889 between 1900 and 2000 miles. The length of streets added annually is about thirty miles. The number of houses in 1889 was nearly 550,000, the average annual increase of houses during this century having been about 4700. The additions, however, do not keep pace with the influx of people from all parts of England and from abroad. To make up for the deficiency we find, on the one hand, more than 50,000 families whose dwelling-place consist of only one room, and, on the other hand, large numbers of the middle and upper classes living in flats, which, though convenient, in many ways, preclude the idea of home. The streets are getting more impassable from year to year.