Transportation Facilities and Street Railway Traffic in London

The name &dquo;London&dquo; is applied indiscriminately to various local government, judicial, and geographical areas.There is the &dquo;Ad- ministrative County of London,&dquo; centrally governed by the elective London County Council, which controls certain matters of local government as sewerage, new buildings, education, etc. Comprised in the &dquo;Administrative County&dquo; is the City of London, governed by the Corporation of London, whose district is practically independent of the County Council except in a few matters.The rest of the &dquo;Administrative County,&dquo; excluding the city, called &dquo;the County of London,&dquo; is divided into 28 Metropolitan Boroughs, each with an elective borough council, which are the local government authorities for all purposes, e. g., street maintenance, scavenging, lighting, etc., not appertaining to the County Council, and which in many mat- ters are controlled by the County Council.The next greater area is &dquo;Greater London&dquo;-the district under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police (a state force), com- prising i-oughly every parish, the whole of which is within fifteen miles, and any part of which is within twelve miles, of Charing Cross, excluding the City of London, which has its own municipal police force.&dquo;Greater London&dquo; includes the Administrative County of London, excluding the City, and stretches beyond into five adjoining administrative counties, viz.: Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex, Hertford, each county with a central county council and entirely subdivided into various subsidiary and practically inde- pendent units of local government, boroughs, urban districts, rural districts-each with an elective authority.The portion of &dquo;Greater London&dquo; lying beyond the Administrative County of London situated in the other counties is geographically known as &dquo;Extra&dquo; or &dquo;Outer

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