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HOW LONDON HAS CHANGED.

LESS BEER DRUNK BUT MORE TOBACCO SMOKED.

CITIZENS ARE MORE SOBER, HEALTHIER AND BRAINIER.

Here are a few things about that mazing city London which will amaze even Londoners.

Today the Londoner drinks ap- proximately only half as much beer as he did forty years ago- but smokes twice as much to- baceo..

Ten times as many people are killed on the streets, but 40 per cent, fewer people die natural

deaths,

The highwayman "thug" is almost extinct, and his place has been taken by the monocled ehent. But just as much soot fails on the City, every year!

These only a few of the remar la facts in a new book, "Forty Years of Change," in which Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith, former. ly, Chief Economic Adviser to the Government, and other experts put London under the microscope.

They have spent two years hold. ing a post-mortem on the City which has changed and died a lingering death during the past forty years,

"Improved Conditions, Conditions of living among the working classes have greatly in proved, and investigations show that the average working man caras third more than he did a general tion ago. He also works an hour à day less."

The unskilled way wages have increased twice nah as the skill ed worker

Death Rate Lówer,

The death rate has fallen nearly 40 per cent, or from 20 per hou

The cinema, greyhound racing, anil tugbaby motor car tage sand in 1890-4 to 13 per cent, in cach been partly responsible for 1824-28. Infant deaths have drop making London more temperate.ped from 151 to 88 per thousand For every ten glass of beer of the population. The birth rate man drank in 1801 he now drinks in London is now lower, however, only six glasses, which contain only than uywhere elec. half the alcohol. More than half the retail price of beer, nearly 7d in the 1s is represented by taxa tion.

Smoking among all classes has more thai, doubled, and four times as much money is spent på tobacco, Taxation takes approximately 98. of every shilling spent tobacco

London's unemployment situation: is curious, for up to 1920 the rate of unemployment was only a little higher than it had been thirty years ago.

Many more "people, however, are in, receipt of Poor Law relief, and the attitude of the public towards drawing this relief has changed, for littlo or no stimga now.attaches" to the application for Poor Law relief. -·||

When London was content to travel in horse-dragn omnibuses, hansom cabs, and growlers," fewer than 200 people were killed in street accidents in a year, bat Crimes of violence have shrunk now the figure, is nearly 2,000, considerably, but classes of fraud An important chapter in the book which were unheard of a generation deals with education.

ago have sprung up, and experts declare that London is only a little. London of the gay nineties was more honest, and that the standard London's parents had revised no with the progress made in forty semi-illiterate, city, aphen half of sexual morality is actually lower. Experts are extremely disantisfied education. To-day 03 porf, of years with the abatement of the parents have been to see smoks evil which is a princips in

No teacher to-day has d'vinuswitha, średí At of n 3 Landde Parlioulnay? more than thirty-six children on an orpea soup fog. had sixty children and more in a average, but in the old days they

class,

deposited on the fate of London Forty thousand tons of soot are

every year!

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day..

(January 1, 1931.)

New Year's Day.

Queen's Theatre: "In

| Madrid."

Gay

the

World Theatre: "Lova on Lake Part 9 (Chinese Bl).

Star Theatre: "Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary,"

Central Theatro: "Honey," Majestic Theatre: The Divine Lady."

Football: Services . The Rest, Saokunpoo, 3.30 p.m

European Mail:-Outward: Europe via Siberia (Tatsuta Maru)

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Friday,

(January 2.). Queen's Theatre: "In Gay Madrid"

World Theatre: "Love on the Lako" Part 2 (Chinese film).

Majestic Theatre: "The Divine Lady.'

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Saturday. (January 3.) Queen Theatre: 2 In Madrid:"

World Theatre:"Love on Lake" Part 2 (Chinese film),

Star Theatre: "Chasing Thru Europe."

Honey"

Royal Engineers, R.A.0.0. v. 6. China, Royal Air Fores v. Chinese. European Mail:-Outward, Europe via Marseilles (Ranchi), 30

Contral Theatre: Majestic Theatre: The Divine... Lady."

Boxing.-H.K. Boxing Associa- tion Tournament (City Hall), 9.15 Cricket.Division I: Civil Ser- vico t. Indian R.C. (L.); H.K.C.C.

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Star Theatre "Chasing Thru. Navy (F.). Division II: Recreio Europe,"

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Central Theatre: "Honey."

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