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There were 6 deaths corresponding to a death-rate of
7.9 per 1,000.
The two zymotic deaths, 1 from measles, and one from
diarrhœa made a zymotic death-rate of 2.6 per 1,000.
18 notifications of infections disease were received, viz.,
scarlet fever 8, diphtheria 4, enteric fever 2 and erysipelas 4.
Four of the total deaths occurred to children under 5.
The thirty-fourth annual report of the Trustees of the
Peabody Donation fund has been issued. The net gain of
the year from rents and interests has been £35,721 10s. 4d.
and the total fund on December 31st last was
£1,256,167 11s. 5d. The capital expenditure on land and
buildings to the end of the year was £1,250,390 10s. 8d.
There had been provided for the Artizan and labouring
poor of London 11,367 rooms, besides bath rooms, laundries,
and lavatories. These comprised 5,121 separate dwellings,
viz., 100 of four rooms, 1,767 of three rooms, 2,412
of two rooms, and 842 of one room. The average weekly
earnings of the head of each family in residence at the close of
the year was £1 3s. 1d. The average rent of each dwelling
was 4s. 9¼d. a week, and of each room 2s. 2d. The rent
in all cases includes the free use of water, laundries,
sculleries, and bath rooms. The mean population during
the year was 19,562, showing a density of 714 people to
the acre, or nearly twelve times that of London. The
birth-rate for the year reached 33.1 per 1,000, which is 3.6
per 1,000 above that of all London for the same period.
The death-rate was 14.7, which is 4.0 below the average of
London, and the infant mortality 114.4 or 52.8 below that
of London.