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Five of the total deaths were children under 5 years of age.
The Trustees of the Peabody Donation Fund submit in
their Annual Report for the year 1894, that they have
provided for the artizan and labouring poor of London,
11,261 rooms, besides bath.rooms, laundries, and lavatories.
These rooms comprised 5,073 separate dwellings.
The number of persons in residence to the end of the
year was 19,918.
The average rent of each dwelling was 4s. 9¼d. per week,
and of each room 2s. 1¾d.
The annual birth rate was 36.3 per 1,000, and the death.
rate 15'7 per 1,000.
The infant mortality was 102.1 in each 1,000 births.
II.—Buildings belonging to the Incorporated Society for
Improving the Condition of the Working Classes.
Office, 8, Southampton Row, W.C.
A.—THE MODEL HOUSES, STREATHAM STREET.
Superintendent, Mr. Sayers.