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manholes in this locality. The whole of the work contained
in these recommendations has been carried out since the
date of the Medical Officer's Report.
Further, the Vestry, on the recommendation of the Committee,
directed a letter to be written to the London County
Council with an extract from the Surveyor's Report, and
this was sent on 23rd December, 1896, and the London
County Council in due course replied that the work of increasing
the pumping power at Crossness was being proceeded
with as rapidly as possible, and that they were contemplating
the formation of a storm water outlet for the Southern Outfall
at Greenwich.
No doubt when these alterations are completed the improvement
shewn in the health of this area in 1896, will be more
than maintained.
It is important to note that the proportion of notifiable
infectious diseases indicated on the official maps issued by the
Metropolitan Asylums Board with their Report for 1896, as
coming from this district, bears a most favourable comparison
with the rest of the Parish.
The statistics in the Medical Officer's Report for this
Reidhaven Road District show that the death rate for 1896
was 16.8, as opposed to 15.6 for the whole Parish, shewing an
excess only of 1.2 per 1000, and in the cases of all classes of
disease specified in his Report, having regard to the smallness
of the figures, and also to the character of the district as
already stated, the proportion which this district bears to the
whole of Plumstead is not abnormal.
The statistics as to Enteric Fever given by the Medical
Officer, if taken for 1896 only, do not show, as is stated in his