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The average weekly earnings of the head of each family
was £1 3s. 0½d. The average rent of each dwelling was
5s. (0½d. a week, and of each room 2s. 31/4d.
The mean population during the year was 19,157, showing
a density of 702 people to the acre, or nearly twelve
times that of London.
The birth-rate for the year reached 32.8 per 1,000,
which is 3.4 per 1,000 above that of all London for the
same period. The death-rate, including the deaths of 68
inhabitants of the buildings who were removed to hospitals,
was 16.7, per 1,000, which is 3.1 per 1,000 below the
average of London.
The infantile mortality was 127*2 in each 1,000 births, or
40-2 below that of London.
II.—Buildings belonging to the Incorporated Society for Improving
the Condition of the Working Classes.
Secretary, Mr. Humphreys, Bloomsbury Mansions,
Hart Street, W.C.
A.—The Model Houses, Streatham Street, W.C.
Superintendent, Mr. Mead.