TORONTO: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 
SOME TORONTO STATISTICS. 
Area of city, 1913, 33.75 square miles. Total park area, 
1912, 1,605 acres; 1913, 1,743 acres. 
Population, 488,000 (estimate of city statistician). 
Death-rate, 12.8 per 1,000 (estimate of city statistician). 
Number of buildings erected in 1913, 10,217; estimated 
value, $27,400,000. 
Assessment of city, 1913, $436,000,000; tax-rate, 1914 
mills. 
Net debt of city, 1918, $33,000,000. Revenue, 1912, 
$8,500,000. 
Miles of streets, 1912, 413; 1918, 509. Miles of side- 
walks, 1912, 561; 1913, 610. Miles of sewers, 1912, 336; 
1918, 360. Miles of water mains, 1912, 434; 1918, 458. 
Miles of gas mains, 1912, 456; 1918, 473. 
Miles of street railway, 1912, 107; 1918, 114. Total 
revenue from street railway since 1891 (to 1911), $6,339,000. 
Revenue from street railway (exclusive of taxes), 1912, 
$890,000. Passengers carried, 1911, 121,000,000; 1912, 135,- 
786,000. 
Attendance at Exhibition, 1912, 962,000. 
Hydro-Electric meters in use, 1913, 18,000, with 15,500 
horse-power. 
Clearing House returns, 1911, $1,852,000,000; 1912, 
$2,170,000,000. 
Custom House returns, 1911: Imports, $100,000,000; 
Duty, $17,800,000. 1912: Imports, $120,000,000; Duty, 
$20,261,000. 
Total number of police, 588. 
Total number of firemen, 336. Total loss on fires, 1912, 
$1,113,000. 
Number of tavern licenses limited to 110; ie $1,600; 
shop licenses, 50; fee, $1,600. 
Number of volumes in city libraries, 180,000; in Univer- 
sity and Law libraries, 250,000. 
Number of automobiles in Ontario (Provincial fee, $4), 
21,500. 
Number of births, 1912, 11,100; marriages, 6,153; deaths, 
6,313. 
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