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Model Buildings tenanted by the Working Classes.
I.—Buildings belonging to the Peabody Donation Fund.
The Trustees of the Peabody Donation Fund in their
Twenty-sixth Annual Report for the year 1890, state that
the net gain of the year from rents and interest was
£28,656 2s. 2d.
Up to the end of the year they have provided for the
artizan and labouring poor of London, 1 1,275 rooms, besides
bath-rooms, laundries and wash-houses occupied by 20,462
persons; these rooms comprise 5,071 separate dwellings, viz.,
75 of 4 rooms, 1,789 of 3 rooms, 2,401 of 2 rooms and 806
of 1 room.
The birth-rate for the year was 38"4 per 1,000, being 9"4
per 1,000 above that of all London for the same period.
The death-rate, including the deaths of inhabitants removed
to hospitals, was 21*1 per 1,000, which is 0'8 per 1,000 above
the average of London. The infant mortality was 141 "2
in each 1,000 births, or 21.3 below that of London.
Under the provisions of the 26th Section of the Customs
and Inland Revenue Act, 1890 (53 Vict., ch. 8), I was called
upon to certify that the Peabody Buildings in Great Wild
and Little Coram Streets were so constructed as to afford
suitable accommodation for each of the families or persons
inhabiting them, and that due provision was made for their
sanitary requirements.
Accordingly, I visited every room and examined the w.c.'s,
flushing-boxes and waste-water preventers, sinks and drawoff
taps, wash-houses, dust shoots and dust receptacles, and
bath-rooms throughout the two blocks of buildings.
THE GREAT WILD STREET BLOCK
was opened in 1883 and consists of thirteen blocks, lettered
A to N respectively.