Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham District]
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No. 1. Mr. and Mrs. Whittle and five children. No bark premises. No window at
back of house. No water now. No cistern. Water turned on daily for two hours.
One child ill with abscesses.
No. 2. Mr. and Mrs. Stone and two children. Same as above.
No. 3. Mr. and Mrs. Iberan and three children. Same as No. 1.
No. 4. Mr. and Mrs. Cheeseman and two children. Same as No. 1.
Other side.
No. 5. Mr. and Mrs. Asker and three children. Small back yard very dirty. Two
children ill with fever. (Attended by Mr. Carr).
No. 6. Mr. and Mrs. Onley and two children and one nurse child. Same as No. 5.
No. 7. Miss Noble, a sister, and one lodger. Same as No. 5.
No. 8. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cheeseman and six children. Same as No. 5.
In Dartmouth Passage or Tuns Passage.
Butcher's at corner of passage Dungheap in this yard, as well as in Tuns Court.
Mr. and Mrs. Marchant. Five children at home. One dead of scarlatina. No cistern.
Yard wet and dirty from water overflowing. Mr. Seager landlord, 18, Montpelier Row.
Mr. Dandridge very well off for drainage.
Camden Cottages, Camden Place, and Camden Row.
Sewer about 200 feet off. Road with quantity of vegetable refuse, &c., thrown about.
Pump in road contains offensive water. Sink under pump used for emptying slops.
Nos. 5 and 6, Camden Cottages. Mr. and Mrs. Croucher; an afflicted husband ; nine
children. Privy and cesspool want emptying. Cesspool emptied two years ago. Offensive
smell; also affecting the houses in Camden Passage. No drainage. Mr. Russell
landlord, Shooters' Hill Road.
Two houses at bottom of square.
•Mrs. Payne (widow) and daughter. Privy, &c., same as above. Pump-water offensive
and cannot be used. Water laid on by tenant lately. Mr. Russell landlord.
Garden Cottage. Mr. Davis and one child. Wife lately dead of phthisis. No drainage
; obliged to carry everything up to the pump sink in the road, which is often stopped
up, when obliged to throw everything on the road. Privy nearly full; emptied three
years ago. No water supply, except to get it from pump, where it is very bad, and
obliged to borrow it to make tea. Landlord, Mr. Russell.
Garden Cottage. John Ball and wife and one child. A cesspool made in garden by
himself Privy quite full; requires emptying. Pigs kept here. No drainage. No
water supply.
Camden Cottages or Square.
Mr. and Mrs. Read and five children. No drainage. No way of removing slops or
refuse of any description without carrying through house. Privy very offensive;
emptied two years ago. Cesspool full and overflowing.
Privy in next yard, at Couldery's, butcher, very offensive, and manure, &c., in the
same yard, when moved very offensive.
Mrs. Denny (widow) and three children. Privies full; cesspool overflowing; emptied
4 or 5 years ago. Pump well unfit for use. No water laid on. Very great complaints.
Mr. Russell landlord.
Miss High (seven living in house). Privy very offensive; emptied four years ago.
No water supply. Pump unfit for use. The dirty water from 20 or 30 houses thrown
down in sink to pump.
Mr. Jeek, three in family. Privy requires emptying. Yard very confined. Landlord,
Mr. Russell.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerrard and two children. No drainage. Privy quite full; requires
emptying. No water supply except from offensive common pump. Mr. Russell
landlord.
Camden Row.
Mr. and Mrs. Cutts and two children. No water. Privy very offensive, and supplies
four houses. Pump in yard without water. Small sink under pump, which receives
all the slops, &c. Landlord, Mr. Brown. Agent, Mr. Sanderson, Greenwich.
Mr. and Mrs. Corderoy and five children. Mr. and Mrs. Ball. Mr. and Mrs. Yivash.
Drain at back of these houses most filthy. Cesspool has not been emptied for fourteen
years.
Camden Passage.
Widow Coppin. No window, except into above-named yard of four houses in Camden
Row. Pump at top very offensive. No water.