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B.—The Herbrand Street Block.
(formerly named the Little Coram Street Block.)
Superintendent, Mr. Snelling.

In 1899 the residents in this block were 719, viz., 583
adults and 136 children under 5 years.
There were 36 births, equal to the high birth-rate of
50.0 per 1,000; the 7 deaths were equal to the correspondingly
low death-rate of 9.7 per 1,000.
3 of the deaths were children under 5 years.
2 were zymotic deaths, viz., enteric fever and diarrhoea.
11 notifications were received, viz., scarlet fever 10, and
erysipelas 1.
It is stated in the thirty-fifth annual report of the
Trustees of the Peabody Donation Fund that the net gain of
the year from rents and interest of the whole of their
buildings has been £35,183 17s. 2d.
The total fund on the 31st December last was
£1,291,351.
The capital expenditure on land and buildings to the
end of the year was £1,285,107 2s. 7d. The trustees had
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.