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Hooping cough still continues common.
The temperature of the air reached its highest point on Monday, 23rd July, the
thermometer indicating 93° in the shade. During the previous week the average was
69°, i.e., nearly 8° above the average for the last forty-three years.
Sandwell Place, Lewisham.—Depraved health has been the result of the
undrained state of this locality so often earnestly brought under your notice. Two
families have been obliged temporarily to remove their children in consequence. A
sewer is required.
West Kent Park, Sydenham, is still insufficiently drained. The houses in North
Road, in which five deaths from scarlet fever were reported last month (produced or
aggravated by want of attention to drainage), are still in a most offensive state, although
the insufficient drainage is supposed to be remedied; Mr. Cowburn's cottages, Lower
Sydenham, are still undrained.
Penge.—The small stream conveying the sewage of the Crystal Palace through the
Green Lane into the Ravensbourne, so often brought under your notice, is still
uncovered and offensive; it has also so washed away the bank at its exit from the
mouth of the sewer, that a house situated at its edge is in danger of falling. This has
been brought under your notice before—more than once—but the danger increases.
Two new houses (in course of construction) adjoining the grounds of the North
Surrey District School have been allowed to drain into a cesspool with outfall into the
ditch; as, of course, this cesspool will be rapidly filled (clay soil), the overflow will be a
disgusting nuisance, dangerous to health, before long. The managers of the North
Surrey School were ordered by you, not long since, to remove the drainage of their
lodge from the same ditch.

AUGUST.
DISTRICTS.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Blackheath
3
7
10
6
3
9
Lewisham
10
11
21
5
6
11
Union Workhouse
—
-
-
1
-
1
Sydenham
10
5
15
7
2
9
Penge
6
5
11
3
2
5
Total
29
28
57
22
13
35
Gentlemen,
fifty-seven births and thirty-five deaths have been registered during the past month.
The mortality (calculating for increased population) is not above the average, though
larger in number than during the corresponding month of last year.
Five deaths have occurred from consumption (tubercular class).
Thirteen deaths have taken place from epidemic disease, i.e., disease produced by