HOUSING THE LONDON POOR.
To read the twenty-sixth annual roport of the Trustees of the Peabody Fund is to realise what a gigantic work it is properly to house the poor of London. Mr. Peabody's benefactions amounted to a total of £500.000. To this good round sum I the trustees have addml, by way of ' rent and interest, £523,446 ; and j they have expended in all, including money borrowed, £1,233,845. The result ia tlie provision of 1 1,275 rooms, occupied by 20,162 persons. The , average rent por room is 2s 1 Jd. As j a rule, tho health oE the model dwellings is better than that of
London generally ; but owing to the epidemic of last spring, from which many of the tenants suffered, the death-rate in 1890 was above the average of the metropolis.
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Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 138, 13 June 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)
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135HOUSING THE LONDON POOR. Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 138, 13 June 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)
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