Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1877 — The Size of London. [ARTICLE]

The Size of London.

London covers nearly 700 square miles. It numbers more than 4,000,000 inhabitants. It comprises 100,000 foreigners, from every quarter of the globe. It contains more Roman Catholics than Rome itself; more Jews than the whole of Palestine; more Irish than Dublin; more Scotchmen than Edinburgh; more. Welshmen than Cardiff. Has a birth in it every five minutes; has seven accidents in it every day in its 7,000 miles of streets; 123 has persons every day, and 45,000 annually, added to its population; has 117,000 habitual criminals on its police register; has 23,000 prostitutes; and has 38,000 drunkards annually brought before its magistrates. Two granddaughters of Danton, the famous French revolutionist, were married lately jn Paris,