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Number of houses still in
such defective condition?
Below £16 rental All now are put in fair
repair.
Above Four are being put in
repair.
Number of vacant houses
suitable for persons of the
working classes and in all
respects fit for habitation? Possibly 50.
Number of houses over- Census return of tenements
crowded on the basis of more than two persons per
Census returns? room, 312
viz: more than two persons approximate number of
to a room? houses containing such
ments, 153.
Number of new houses Possibly 100 would suffice
required for persons of the but must be let at rents that
working classes? would make it likely that
families would be able to
rent sufficient rooms to
avoid overcrowding.
SCARLET FEVER.
42 cases and no death. 12 were sent to Hospital and
did well. The cases were spread fairly over the year. Jan., 2;
Feb., 1; March, 3; May, 3; June, 2; July, 1; August, 6;
Sept., 5; Oct., 5; Nov., 6 ; Dec., 8.
There were9 cases reported from the Workhouse supposed
to have originated from visitors.