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In company with the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Sanitary
Committee, I attended a meeting of Delegates which met at the
London County Council's Offices on July 19th last. It was generally
admitted that some radical reform was demanded, and a number of
resolutions was the outcome of a keen and prolonged debate. I cannot,
however, think that any Government will bring in a Bill on the
lines suggested by those resolutions, but I sincerely hope that we shall
not wait long before all such institutions have to be registered in the
same manner as Common Lodging-Houses.
The various shelters enumerated above added 44 deaths to the
District mortality—all but 3 of these deaths took place in the
Whitechapel Union Infirmary. Of the remainder, 2 were registered
in the London Hospital, and 1 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
These were referred to the District Shelters as follows :—
Salvation Army Shelter, 194, Hanbury Street 28
,, „ „ Quaker Street 2
,, ,, ,, 272, Whitechapel Road 7
,, ,, ,, 51, Royal Mint Street 2
Dr. Barnado's Shelter, 12, Dock Street 5
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Model Dwellings are still being erected within the District. Large
Blocks are in course of erection in Goulston Street and also in
Flower and Dean Street. Some of the tenements were already
occupied before the close of the year, but I have not included them in
this year's statistics. The death-rate for the year among the dwellers
in Block dwellings was 18.3 per 1000, and the Zymotic deaths
equalled 3.8 per 1000.
For comparison purposes, I have classified the cause of death in the
case of each resident in any Artizans' Building.