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The quarter ending September 1869 was most fatal to
infant life under 1 year of age when the deaths numbered
42; but in the corresponding quarter of 1868 they amounted
to 60.
New Industrial Dwellings and Schools.
The five blocks of improved industrial dwellings which
are in the course of erection in Ebury-street, Pimlico; on a
portion of the estate of the Marquis of Westminster, and
intended to provide 110 tenements of 2 and 3 rooms each,
with 10 large shops, and to accommodate about 600 persons
of all ages, are expected to be completed and occupied before
Michaelmas next. The late Marquis of Westminster having
granted the lease of a site in Ebury-square, Pimlico, 65
dwellings, with 4 shops, affording accommodation for about
330 persons, are already in course of erection, and it is
hoped that they will also be completed and occupied before
Michaelmas. The houses on the east side of the same
square have been taken down, and the site is now occupied
by large and commodious schools for St. Michael's District.
Gatliff Buildings.
Although the deaths in these dwellings were a very
slight increase when compared with those which happened
in the same period of last year, still we notice that four of
them arose from consumption and that not one occurred
from scarlet fever, which has been prevalent in the District.
Taking the number of inhabitants at 621, which includes
250 children under 10 years of age, the death-rate was 22
per thousand.