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The Medical Officers report "that the sanitary condition
of the hospital is still in the same satisfactory state that it
has been during the last ten years; this means that there
has been an absence of puerperal fever in the wards during
the whole of that period."
"In the out-patient department of the hospital 435
women have been delivered, but in no instance has a mother
lost her life."
Birth and Death-rates in the Model Buildings tenanted
by the Working Classes.
I.—Buildings belonging to the Peabody Donation Fund.
Secretary, Mr. J. Crouch, 64, Queen Street, Cheapside, E.C.
A.—THE GREAT WILD STREET BLOCK.
Resident Superintendent, Mr. Manship.

The births in the year numbered 55, corresponding to the
high birth-rate of 39.5 per 1,000.
The 26 deaths were equivalent to a death-rate of 187
per 1,000.
Of the total deaths 17 were those of children under 5
years of age.