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Tenement Houses.— Many houses at one time occupied by one
family are let out in tenements, without any attempt being made
to provide for the altered requirements of the tenants. It is most
desirable that owners should be prohibited from so letting their
houses, until the local authority has been satisfied that adequate
provision has been made from a sanitary point of view.
Healthiness of Block Dwellings.
In order to ascertain the relative healthiness of dwellings erected
in blocks, I have extracted from the Registrar's Weekly Returns
deaths of persons residing therein, and have compared the figures
with the officials of nearly all the companies owning such buildings
in the City, to whom I am indebted for the trouble they have taken.
It has not been possible to ascertain the rates for all of them, as some
owners do not know the population of their houses, or have not
communicated it to me, and at present it is not possible to obtain the
information from the Census Office.
The Peabody Fund has the most complete information as to
population, as a census is taken by its officers quarterly. The Trust
provides accommodation for 6,902 persons in the City. Divided into
five groups of ages, it is evident that the Peabody population has a
much larger percentage at the younger periods than either London
or Westminster.