Show THE FUTURE or LONDON increase in the population of the city receives no serious the favorite name of cobbett for london the wen is going to be truer than it ever has been if we can trust some remarkably interesting statistics just issued by the london county council says the westminster budget one question discussed is whether london is or is not being checked in its rate of growth on a first glance at the registrars figures with regard to london itself it appeared as though it were for before 91 london population was increasing every ten years at a rate varying from 10 to 21 per cent but in the decade ending with the rate of increase had only been 10 per cent does this mean asks the committee of which mr costelloe is chairman that london has reached alie turning point and that in a few years the increase will become a decrease the committee finds that it docs not it appears eliat the true reason for the apparent diminishing rate of increase is that the building space in london is gradually being appropriated and that the people aided by improved railway and tramway and omnibus accommodation are be taking themselves more to outside london residences even in greater london this is noticed to a smaller extent the rate of increase in population while still very rapid in greater london is beginning to show a tendency to become blower and it is discovered that the londoners Lon doners are moving detill farther out into the home counties then there are speculations as to what the size of london will be fifty years hence or less upon the milder suppositions if we do not add any more to the population than the amount per decade that lias been added since 1881 it seems that we should have a population in 1941 af close upon if wo allow for a growth at tho rate of the natural increase of births over deaths there will be nearly in london in that year if we reckon that london will grow at the average rate of the last three decades we shall be over but if inner london and outer london go on together growing at the rate they have been growing for the last three tena of years we are to expect a london population in 1941 of a trifling if we look at tho matter in another way and ask what population greater london will contain when it has attained throughout the mean density of well known areas we get the following appalling figures it greater london were only peopled as densely as it would contain a population of if it were peopled on an average as densely as fulham Is now the population would be it it were peopled at the rate of st georges Geor pes hanover ti quare tha total would rise to is now three times as densely peopled as SL georges itself the moral is obvious |