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such has been the result here ; and it is necessary to efficiently cleanse and fill in the
cesspools, and supply proper drainage, to prevent a recurrence of disease.
Camden Row and Camden Place are likewise still undrained, and in a filthy state from
cesspools and privies.
A drain might be so constructed as to receive the sewage from all these localities, and
conduct it into the main sewer. This would confer a great boon upon the inhabitants.
Paragon Mews and Bath Place are still in the same state as formerly. A drain might
at no great expense be carried up these districts from Osborne Place.
Lewisham.—A great many of the houses (before mentioned) in Loampit Yale, are now
in a most disgusting state of filth, and urgently require drainage and water supply.
Part of Rushey Green is still undrained and offensive, and requires a small drain to
convey it into the sewer.
Water is still required in Hanover Street, Cross Street, Rushey Green, &c.
Shepherd's Place, a most offensive locality, is as yet undrained.
Sydenham.—Steele's Cottages, near Dartmouth Row, are still throwing out a quantity
of noxious drainage upon the ground at the back of Dartmouth Row, within a short distance
of the sewer. The ground in the neighbourhood of many houses is a perfectly
poisonous swamp.
The inmates of houses in the occupation of Mr. Coulson, Park House, and Mr. Weidner,
West Kent Park, are represented as suffering from an accumulation of sewage underneath
the floors, and in danger of sickness as the result of such serious neglect.
The drainage of houses at the back of the Forester Inn, in Willow Road, and Hanover
Street, urgently require the order of the Board to make the houses habitable.
The road here is also in a dangerous and most unhealthv state.

I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
F. E. WILKINSON,
Sydenham, 26th November, 1857. Medical Officer of Health.

Gentlemen,
The health of the district, as derived from the Registrar's returns of mortality, bears
a favourable aspect, which in some of the Wards is particularly observable. Thus, in
Blackheath, the mortality for the past five weeks has only amounted to two, and in