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During the year 1894 only ten cases of Infectious Disease
occurred, viz.: two Scarlet Fever, seven Diphtheria, and one
Enteric Fever.
In the 13th Annual Report of the Peabody Trust it was
found that in the Peabody-buildings generally the birth rate
was 36.3 per 1,000; the death rate 15.7 per 1,000, and the
infant mortality was 102.1 to each 1,000 births, showing that
the birth rate is exceedingly high and the death rate exceedingly
low.
Great improvements have been made in the ventilation, &c.,
of D Block Peabody-buildings, Old Pye-street, during the year.
overcrowding at the salvation Army shelters.
So much has been said during the past year of the necessity
of bringing these shelters under the same rules and regulations
as the Common Lodging-houses, that the Vestry passed a
resolution to that effect in October last, and at the same time
agreed that there could be no question but that it would be a
wise and judicious thing to do.
At the beginning of November, having received an anonymous
letter with regard to the overcrowding of the Salvation
Army Shelter in Horseferry-road, I visited the shelter and
found that there was considerable overcrowding every night
and very bad ventilation. In No. 1 room there were 83 beds,
and the walls were damp; in No. 2 room, 75 beds; in No. 3
room, 94 beds; in No. 4 room, part of which is partitioned off
as a kitchen, there were 17 beds ready to be used in case of emergency.
There are 5 water tanks under the roof of No. 3 room,
all uncovered and thus receiving the breath emanations of
the 94 persons sleeping nightly in this room. The closets, 7