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The amount received in rents amounted to 99 37 per cent. of the
gross rental, and the empties and allowances amounted to 0 63 per cent.
The general charges amounted to 34 25 per cent. of the gross rental.
Exclusive of the cost of the special repairs, there was a surplus on the
year's working of £13 7s. 9d.
The administration of Onslow Dwellings and Pond House during
the Year has worked with smoothness and efficiency.
During 1907, eleven tenants voluntarily terminated their tenancies,
and one was given notice to quit.
in September, 1907, a child of one of the tenants, aged 2½ years,
met with an accident by falling from the first floor balcony into the
courtyard below, and the question of the liability of the Borough Council
for this accident is at present under the consideration of the Housing
Committee.
Vital Statistics.—During the year 1907, 11 births (3 boys, 8 girls)
were registered for the Dwellings, equivalent to a birth-rate of 30 6 per
1,000. Three deaths were registered during the year, equivalent to a
death-rate of 8 3 per 1,000.

No cases of infectious desease were notified during the year, in the
Dwellings.
Earl Cadogan's Offer of a Site for Working Class Dwellings
in Grove Cottages, Manor Street.
On the 7th March, 1907, the following letter was received from
Mr. Cave, Earl Cadogan's Estate Agent:—
Cadogan Estate Office,
120a, Sloane Street,
London.
6th March, 1907.
Dear Dr. Parkes,
When you called upon me last week, you handed to me a copy of a
resolution passed by the Borough Council on the 27th February, instructing
the Public Health Committee to consider the practicability of
acquiring a site for the erection of Working Class Dwellings on the
Manor-street and Flood-street area.
The provision of more Dwellings for the Working Class has, I know,
been under consideration by Lord Cadogan on several occasions recently,
and, but for the indisposition of himself, and the illness of Lady Cadogan,