CHAPTER VIII 



MANCHESTER 



MANCHESTER is the center of a highly concentrated 

 population. If an imaginary circle be drawn, with a 

 radius of 20 miles, so as to take in the cities of Liver- 

 pool and Manchester, it will include a population of 

 3,225,000 inhabitants. There are here one city (Liver- 

 pool) of about 739,180, one (Manchester) of 637,126, 

 one (Salford) 234,077, and fifteen more having a popu- 

 lation of over 30,000 each, not to speak of thirty-five 

 places having populations of from 5000 to 30,000 each. 

 This averages over 10,000 to the square mile, or about 

 16 to the acre. It is misleading, of course, to think 

 of this population as evenly distributed. It is, to a 

 considerable extent, restricted to the municipalities 

 mentioned. 



The Manchester district is famous for its textile 

 industries. There is no other manufacturing center 

 coin] tumble with it. 



The cleaning of streets in the city of Manchester is 

 CM Tried on by a committee of the City Council con- 

 sisting of the Lord Mayor, four Aldermen, 



* The Street- 



and fifteen councillors, and is called the cleaning 

 Cleansing Committee. They possess all the 

 power and authority relative to the purposes for which 

 they were created possessed by the Council itself. The 

 total cost of the Department for the year ending March 



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