December 31, 1906
Reductions in fifteen years.
Various resolutions having been passed in Liverpool at representative meetings arguing that “no real or permanent improvement” can be expected in the areas where the Corporation are effecting re-housing schemes so long as there remain in such areas licensed houses, the committee, in a report just issued, point out that the districts with which they have dealt have been carefully selected having regard to re-housing operations, but at the same time the committee claim the right “to consider critically” the wants of the neighborhoods altered.
Without licenses that have been and will be extinguished by to-day the number of “on” licenses in the city will have been reduced from 2,093 in 1890, when the population was 520,466, to 1,830, the present population being 739,180. The proportion will be one license to every 404 persons.
(Manchester Courier: December 31, 1906)
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