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charged per quarter in advance on the amount collected in the
previous quarter.
Housing of the Working Classes.
29. The following 14 houses were represented as unfit for
human habitation under Section 32 of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act:—
1, Godfrey Street
7 do.
1, 2, 3, 4, Pottery Cottages, Eltham
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Reed's Buildings
62A, Beresford Street
8, Harden's Manorway
16, Armstrong Street
Notices (Form A), were served in nine cases; the houses were
vacated, and the work required done in three cases. Six houses
(Reed's Buildings and 8 Harden's Manorway) were demolished at
the instance of the owner. At the remaining five houses the
owner did the work required without the service of a notice.
North Woolwich—(Special Inquiry).
30. In previous reports, the comparative unhealthiness of the
part of the Borough known as North Woolwich has been
repeatedly remarked on. For the five years 1901-1906, the deathrate
of the North River Ward was 17·8 (compared with 13·9 for
the Borough) being exceeded by no Ward except the South River.
The infantile death-rate for the same period was 180 (compared
with 119 for the Borough) and was far higher than in any other
ward. Two-thirds of the difference between the infantile deathrates
of the Borough and the North River Ward is accounted for by
the excess of deaths from diarrhoeal diseases in this ward. The
death-rate from this disease in the five years 1901-5 was 59 per
1,000 births in North River Ward, and 27 in the Borough.