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Four cases of scarlet fever and three cases of diphtheria were notified
in the Buildings during the year.
Pond House.
For the year ended 31st March, 1910, the deficit on the year s
working was £37 10s. 7d., as compared with £57 16s. 0d., for the
previous year. The empties amounted to £1 19s. 6d., or 0.27 per cent.
of the gross rental (less porter's rooms), the same percentage as in the
previous year. The general charges amounted to £205 9s. 2d., or 27.5
per cent. of the gross rental (less porter's rooms), as against 28.5 per
cent. in the previous year.
During the year Pond House was fully occupied. Five tenants
voluntarily terminated their tenancies, and one was given notice to quit.
Two births (one boy and one girl) were registered during the year.
There was no death. One case of diphtheria was notified during the
year, but no other infectious notifiable disease.
During the year external painting and other repairs were carried out
by Messrs. Nightingale, at a cost of £62, and 20 tenements were
distempered at a cost of £40 10s. Od.
Onslow Dwellings.
For the year ended 31st March, 1910, the surplus on the year's
working was £97 6s. 7d., as compared with £47 for the previous year.
The empties amounted to £2 18s. 6d., or 0 2 per cent. of the gross rental,
as compared with 0.14 per cent. in the previous year. The general
charges amounted to £505 15s. 0d., or 34.2 per cent. of the gross rental
as compared with 36 per cent. in the previous year.
The Dwellings have been fully occupied during the year; nine
tenants only voluntarily terminated their tenancies. External painting
and other necessary repairs were carried out during the year by Messrs.
Nightingale, at a cost of £136.
Vital Statistics.—During the year, 8 births (7 boys and 1 girl) were
registered in the Dwellings, equivalent to a birth-rate of 23 per 1,000.
Only one death was registered during the year :—Female, 62 years ; wife
of Museum labourer; Cause of death—Heart disease: bronchitis. No
cases of notifiable infectious disease occurred in the Dwellings in 1910.
Grove Buildings.
These Buildings were completed in the spring of 1910, and were
opened for occupation at the end of March. Owing to the damp condition
of the rooms of the two highest floors, some time was allowed to elapse
before the tenements on these two floors were let ; and the Buildings
were not fully occupied until June. The tenements were all taken up by
residents in Chelsea of the class for whom the Buildings were designed.
The average earning capacity of the occupants of the one-room tenements
was about 14s. per week, and of the occupants of the two-room tenements
about £1 1s. 6d. per week. The total number of people accommodated
is 268, of whom 210 are over and 58 under 10 years of age. Twenty-one
tenants have voluntarily terminated their tenancies since the Buildings
were opened, and four have been given notice to quit. The total capital
expenditure on the Buildings has been £15,542, and the cost of building
per room would appear to be about £75, as compared with £89 per room
for Sir Thomas More Buildings, and £93 10s. per room for Pond House.