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was passed giving facilities for this purpose. The 

 Town-planning Act is in operation in Birmingham, 

 Sheffield, Portsmouth, Winchester, and Bournemouth, 

 and extensive housing schemes have been carried 

 through in London, Liverpool, and elsewhere. 

 A scheme for the establishment of a Garden City 

 on land belonging to King's College, Cambridge, at 

 Ruislip -North wood in Middlesex was adopted in 1911, 

 and there it is proposed to devote two -thirds of the 

 estate of 1300 acres to building and one-third to open 

 spaces. A Garden City of 1000 acres at Kneb worth in 

 Hertfordshire, and one at Wavertree in Lancashire, 

 are in progress, and in all parts of the country munici- 

 palities and councils are proceeding steadily to carry 

 out the recent Town-planning and Housing Act. 



14. EMIGRATION AND ITS CAUSES. 

 IMMIGRATION OF ALIENS 



The population of the British Isles in 1911 was 

 45,370,530, and in 1921 it will probably reach 

 50,000,000. Although the census is taken only once in 

 every ten years it is not difficult to estimate in any 

 year the population of our country, for we know the 

 number of births and deaths which are duly registered, 

 and we are in possession of facts that enable us to 

 calculate the number of emigrants who leave and 

 the number of immigrants who enter our land. This 

 chapter will deal with this going and coming of people 

 from and to the British Isles, with the consequent 

 effect on the condition and progress of our country. 



