Excerpt from The Investors' Review, 1901, Vol. 8 About this table there are two things which are especially striking - the one the enormous rate or increase assigned to the towns of the second group, the other the decrease of the smaller towns, especially as this contrasts with an increase in the rural districts, ' small indeed, but still an increase. If the curious reader of the report casts his eye up and down the columns of figures giving the individual populations of the towns of and upwards which follow on the page after the table quoted, he will be struck with the fact that, of the twenty-four towns of between and inhabitants, nine only have rates of increase exceeding 20 per cent., three only rates in excess of 30 per cent and only one a rate of growth in excess of that stated in the table as the average for the group - namely Willesden, with a population of only. It is perfectly obvious that there must be an error somewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.