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Show Greater London Shows Big Gain in Population London. The population of Greater London now totals 8.203,942, as revealed re-vealed by the first official report compiled com-piled from the census reports of last year. The Increase in population, as compared com-pared with 1921, has been 9.7 per cent or nearly three times as great as in the preceding decade, and nearly twice as great as the current increase for the nation at large. Greater London's inhabitants are divided di-vided into 4,371.026 females and only 3,S32,!)16 males. How that happened, the report doesn't deign to disclose. Figures for the city of London and the 2 metropolitan boroughs which comprise the administrative county of London (as distinct from Greater London) Lon-don) show a decline of S7,2.",0 for the ten-year period. This population is now 4,307,003. |