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Two cases of scarlet fever were notified during the year.
Grove Buildings.
The Buildings were fully occupied throughout the year. Twenty
tenants voluntarily terminated their tenancies. There were no notices
to quit. Eleven births and two deaths were registered during the year.
The deaths were :—Male, 40 years, cirrhosis of kidney; and Male, 68 years,
Heart and kidney disease. Four cases of scarlet fever were notified during
the year.
The external painting of the Buildings and of the staircases was carried
out at a cost of £152, by Messrs. A. G. Pole.

Sutton Dwellings.—These dwellings were fully occupied during the
year, and house a population of 2,236, of whom 715 are under 10 years of
age, and 1,521 over 10 years. The proportion under 10 years (32 per cent.)
is considerably higher than in the Borough Council's Dwellings, where the
proportion under 10 years of age is only 28 per cent. The number of tenements
in the dwellings is 674, containing 1461 rooms, and 674 sculleries.
The average population per room is 1.5, as against 1.3 in the Borough
Council's dwellings, so that the density of population is slightly greater.
There were 97 births in the Dwellings during the year, equivalent to
a birth-rate of 43.4 per 1,000, and 19 deaths, equivalent to a death-rate of
8.5 per 1,000. There were 22 cases of scarlet fever and 4 of diphtheria
notified in the Dwellings during the course of the year.