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An offensive drain from the corner opposite the Duke's Dead Inn, Little Blackheath
Hill, from stables, &c., runs along the public road.
The public privies adjoining Pound's Mews require attention.
Grote's Buildings are now drained into the ditch at the back of the adjoining houses,
and are not connected with the sewer.
Phoenix Square and Dartmouth Passage are still dirty and unpaved.
Butcher's yard, at the corner of the above (Dartmouth Passage), has an accumulation
of manure.
Osborne Place has no drainage.
Paragon Mews. One house adjoining Reeves's stables is most offensive. The privy
is under the staircase. Two cases of fever have occurred in this house.
Camden Cottages. Cesspool and want of drainage.
Bath Place is dirty and undrained; a large cesspool here is running over.
Lewisham.—No drainage from Leathersellers' Almshouses.
Cross Street, Hanover Street, Poplar Row, and Waterloo Place are without Bupply of
water to closets.
Penge.—Offensive drainage into ditches along the road from the Anerley Station to
the Crystal Palace (vide letter from Rev. Mr. Worrlledge).
Stagnant water begins at the corner of the Oakfield Road (vide letter).
Drainage into the water forming a portion of the old canal near Anerley Station.
Sydenham.—Duffin's, Jauncey's, and adjacent houses are not drained into the sewer.
The soil and refuse still takes its old course into Perry Yale ditches, and is most
poisonous and offensive. (Dartmouth Road.)
Dirty privy and cesspool, much complained of, at the back of Baker's, butcher (late
Rudhoram's).
The houses in Dartmouth Row require draining into the sewer adjacent. The soil
and sewage flow over the adjoining land.
Dirty and offensive privy at the back of Mr. Perry's, butcher, High Street.
Most offensive ditches, containing a great quantity of sewage, still exist for some
hundreds of yards by the side of Brockley Lane, West Kent Park.
Ponds of filthy sewage, containing drainage from 40 houses in Wells Road, and holding
many thousand gallons, lie at the backs of the houses.
The drainage into the ditches by the side of the public road is most offensive in this
locality, Wells Road.
The state of the roads leading through Hanover Street and Crystal Crescent, and
Skudder"s and Willow Road, reported in January, 1856.

I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
F. E. WILKINSON,
Medical Officer of Health.
Sydenham, 26th February, 1867.