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In 1892 the various groups of buildings belonging to the
Peabody Donation Fund consisted of 11,273 rooms, occupied
by 20,144 persons; the birth-rate for the year reached 37.4
per 1,000, which is 7.7 per 1,000 above that of all London;
the death-rate was 18.8 per 1,000, which is 0.3 per 1,000
above the average for London. The infant mortality was
147.0 in each 1,000 births, or 7.0 above that of London.
The following are the conditions of occupation to be
observed by the Tenants:—
RULES.
1.—No application for rooms will be entertained unless every
member of the applicant's family has been vaccinated, and in
the case of those past childhood, re-vaccinated. The applicant
must also agree to have any case of infectious disease occurring
in his rooms removed to the proper hospital.
2.— The rents for the current week to be paid at the
tendent's Office, on Mondays, from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m.
3.—No arrears of rent will be allowed.
4.—The passages, steps, closets, laundry and lavatory windows must
be washed every Saturday, and swept every morning before
10 o'clock. This must be done by the Tenants in turn.
5.—Washing must be done only in the laundry. Tenants will not be
permitted to use the laundries for the washing of any clothes
but their own. No clothes shall be hung out.