Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1912 — Some London Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Some London Statistics.

In a volume of more than 600 pages the London County Council presents statistic.) of much interest. The metropolitan district, made up of the cities, towns and boroughs which comprise the real London, had a population of 7,252,963 in 1910, occupying an area of a little more than 692 square miles. Only 14.8 per cent, of the total number of inhabitants, or 670,110 persons, were entitled to vote in parliamentary elections, and of these 74.6 per cent went -to the polls in the election of December, 1910, a falling off from the 84.3 per cent which voted in January of that year. In 1909 there were 116,559 births, a decline since 1881 from 34.3 to 24.2 a thousand of population. The death rate fell Phthisis and pneumonia were responsible for more than 13,000 deaths. More Curious Than Comfortable. The Mashukulumbu! natives of northwestern Rhodesia have a most wonderful headdress, which is made up of cuttings qf hair from qjher boys heads mixed with mud and grease. Sometimes these topknots are studded with all sorts of curiosities, such as beads, bits of broken crockery, trass paper-fasteners (the latter generail} stolen by the native messengtris from the native commissioner’s office), feathers, add so forth. The result forms one of the moat curious coiffures in the wort*. . ...ma,—* ‘ • t'V.* I *. -X