THE CITY OF LIVERPOOL.
The City of Liverpool. Edited by E. W. Hope, M.D. (Lee and Nightingale, Liverpool.)—This "handbook "—it is not, we hope, a frivolous criticism to question the propriety of the term as applied to a quarto of more than three hundred pages, weighing, we should think, some six pounds—was specially prepared for this year's Congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health. The Local Executive Committee thought, and rightly thought, that the occasion was a good one for publishing a full, official account of the undertakings of the Corporation of the City, especially in their bearing on the subject of public health, with which the Congress is occupied. Liverpool is increasing its borders, not always, it would seem, with the assent of its neighbours. It now numbers seven hundred and sixteen thousand eight hundred and ten inhabitants, and covers more than twenty-three square miles. It owes £12,151,277, with a set-off in the way of sinking fund of £1,171,366; while its property, without reckoning waterworks, tramways, and electric-supply works, amounts to £7,816,510. The difference is more than made up by the works mentioned. The property revenue is £110,000, that from rates £716,658. For the operations of the Corporation, varied and extensive as they are, the reader must go to this handsome and well-ordered volume.
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