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The only moans of saving the healthy in these cases is by isolating the sick.
A house in Park End, Sydenham, occupied by Mr. Smith, Surgeon, is in a very bad
sanitary condition from want of sufficient drainage, and should in common with all the
houses in this locality be we11 and sufficiently drained into the sewer which has just
been constructed in tho main road adjacent.
Meteorological tables and tables of mortality are appended as usual.
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
Week
ending
Weight of
Air.
Barometer
corrected.
Mean
inches.
Temperature of Air.
Thermometer.
Prevailing
winds.
Rainy
days.
Amount
of rain
in
inches.
Highest.
Lowest.
Mean of
daily
readings.
Nov. 28
29.943
67.0
35.7
47.9
s.W. & S.E.
1
0.25
Dec. 6
29.710
54.2
29.8
42.1
S.W.
4
0.78
12
30.034
63.5
34.8
46.7
S.W.
2
0.12
19
30.121
50.2
32.2
42.1
N.W.&S.W.
0
0.00
26
29.970
61.9
26.5
42.5
W.
0
0.00
JANUARY, 1864.
DISTRICTS.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.
Mules.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Blackheath
6
1
7
-
11
11
Lewisham
12
13
25
6
7
13
Union Workhouse
—
—
—
2
3
5
Sydenham
21
19
40
8
11
19
Penge
10
8
18
7
4
11
Total
49
41
90
23
36
59
Gkntlbmkn,
During the month 90 births and 59 deaths have occurred in the district. During the
same period last year 64 deaths were registered; but the mortality is still above the
average, although not so great as might have been anticipated from the extreme cold
which we have experienced, followed by the unseasonable temperature and dampness
of tho atmosphere.
Seven deaths havo taken place from epidemic disease, viz :—
26th Dec. "Whooping cough, Bell Green, Sydenham.
10th Jan. Fever, Charles Street, Sydenham.
11th „ Whooping cough, Bell Green, Sydenham.
13th „ Smallpox, Russell Street, Sydenham.
17th „ Smallpox, Union Vale, Blackheath.
22nd „ Influenza, Forest Hill, Sydenham.
9th ,, Whooping cough, Regent Street, Blackheath.
Eight deaths have occurred from consumption of the lungs. Nine deaths 10m
flammatory affections of the lungs. Five deaths have occurred in those beween the
ages of 80 and 90; six in those between 70 and 80; twenty-one in chikhen under the
age of two years.
Smallpox, which was epidemic in parts of the district, has much diminished in the
number of persons afFcctcd, and is, I hope, disappearing. I wo deaths have occurred