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Sick children are still admitted to the school, but contagious
diseases are excluded; diseases of this kind, may,
however, still be admitted in a latent state, unless great care
be taken in the probationary wards.
During the year about 395 children suffering from
opthalmia were sent to Bow; and I am informed that the
result of this less crowding caused great improvement in the
health of those left behind.
The inmates of the school were free from infectious
disease during the year, but measles were endemic amongst
those at Bow.
Six deaths were registered during the year 1873.
Since my last report, great improvements have taken
place and are in progress.
A new infant school, new day rooms, new water closets
and baths have been erected; the old windows have been
removed, and an entire set of new sash-windows has been put
in throughout the building.
A new system of ventilation has been adopted, and the
drains have been reconstructed.
The irrigation of the land with the sewage of the establishment
has been discontinued, and the drains have now an
outfall into the sewers of Penge and Lewisham.
Gas, which used to be made upon the premises, is purchased
of the Crystal Palace Gas Company.
These alterations have been made at an outlay of several
thousand pounds, and it appears to me that the cost to the
ratepayers of each individual child will be very little short of
£30 per annum.
One death occurred at the Watermen's Asylum.