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The Improved Industrial Dwellings' Company have opened
120 dwellings in Corfield street, each containing three or four rooms,
every tenement being provided with separate domestic conveniences,
including kitchen, scullery, and W.C., each having also a separate
water supply. The arrangements are on a very good plan, and all
drains are well constructed and thoroughly ventilated. The Secretary
of the Company informs me that the death-rate amongst the tenants
is only 17.2 per 1000; but, as the class of people who inhabit these
dwellings largely patronise the hospitals when ill, and form a not
inconsiderable proportion of the in-patients, this low death-rate,
which makes no allowance for hospital mortality, must be taken with
a certain reservation.
Toye Buildings, Mansford Street.—The Industrial Dwellings
now in course of erection in Mansford street were opened during the
year, and 48 tenements were in occupation at Christmas last.
Gale's Gardens Estate.—Of the Industrial Dwellings on this
Estate, only four were occupied during the year; it is intended to put
up about 27 blocks.
TABLE A.
Number of Houses, Workshops, Dry., in the Parish of St. Matthew,
Bethnal Green.
DIVISIONS.
Inhabited
Houses.
Workshops separate
from houses.
Saw mills and
Timber yards.
Schools.
REMARKS.
East Ward
4976
32
13
13
A Brickfield in the
District.
West Ward (North Division)
2675
63
11
3
Three Railway Arches
West Ward (South Division)
1664
10
9
5
North Ward
3020
18
21
5
South Ward
5140
..
17
20
170 Railway Arches
used as Workshops, &c.
Total 1879
17475
123
71
46
Total 1878
17311
113
78
45