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Fifteen deaths have occurred in infants under 2 years of age, and 6 in those above 70
The death of one nonagenarian is also registered who had attained the age of 93.
Three deaths have taken place from epidemic disease, namely—
3rd March. Dysentery, Homesdale, Lewisham.
13th „ Diarrhoea, Price's Cottages, Lewisham.
9th „ Enteric fever, Sydenham Hill.
Two deaths have taken place from inflammation of the air passages, and two from
consumption.
Measles and hooping cough arc somewhat prevalent, but not of a severe kind.
Offensive sewage still permeates the open ditches along Perry Vale, Sydenham.
The roads in West Kent Park are still quite impassable in some parts, and the gullies
are broken in, open, and offensive; the locality is damp and unwholesome, both from
these causes and from the undrained state of the land.
Pigs are kept in an offensive manner, and are an unwholesome nuisance near dwelling
houses, opposite the Rising Sun Inn.
The large quantities of burning ballast adjoining inhabited houses near the Forest
Hill Station, and at Anerly, is prejudicial to the comfort and health of the inhabitants.
Meteorological tables and tables of mortality are appended as usaal.