'The first volume of a new survey] of London life and labour has just been published to take the place of Booth's classic survey which was begun 40 years ago. Seme of the! developments which have taken' place - since then are extraor-Ginarily interesting. As far as population is concerned the tendency' seems to be for a levelling out, The denser areas are less dense and the sparsely populated areas of the past! Much less beer and weaker beer at that, is being! drunk whilst the consumption of tobacco the wages are worth a third more to im in real value than they were in 1890.... though it is doubtful whether this' fact is generally preciated. The rise in the of unskilled labour has been ticularly marked. The trouble about a vast survey of this kind, however, is that it contains too many Statistics and the reader finds it difficult to sce the wood for the: trees. What we know far mere clearly is what we can most of us seo for ourselves,... that London Transport is better perhaps than in any other city in the world considering the design of the streets and that there is still far teo much. smoke-and fog,
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