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12 of the total deaths were children under 5 years
of age.
There were two infectious deaths, 1 from scarlet fever
(died in the North Western Fever Hospital) and 1 from
diphtheria (died in Children's Hospital), the zymotic death
rate was equal to 3.8 per 1,000.
9 certificates of infectious diseases were received, viz.,
scarlet fever 4, diphtheria 2, erysipelas 2.
The Trustees of the Peabody Donation Fund, in their
31st Annual Report, state that the net gain of the year
1895 from rents and interest was £28,434 9s. 9d., which
was £1,560 17s. 10d., below that of 1894. The capital
expenditure on land and buildings to the end of the year
was £1,250,390 10s. 8d., being an increase of £693 14s. lOd.
At the end of 1895 the Trustees had provided for the
artizan and labouring poor of London 11,367 rooms,
besides bathrooms, laundries and lavatories. These rooms
comprise 5,121 separate dwellings, viz., 76 of four rooms,
1,791 of three rooms, 2,436 of two rooms, and 818 of a
single room. The number of persons in residence on
December 31st was 19,914. The average weekly earnings
of the head of each family in residence at the close of
the year was £1 3s. 3½d., the average rent of each
dwelling being 4s. 9½d. per week, and of each room 2s. 2d.
The birth-rate for the year reached 36.9 per 1,000, which is
6'4 per 1,000 above that of all London for the same period.
The death-rate incliiding the deaths of 51 inhabitants
of the buddings, who were removed to hospitals, was 17.9
per 1,000, which is 1.9 per 1,000 below the average of
London. The infant mortality was 151.1 in each 1,000
births, or 14.7 below that of London.