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causes which are preventible or removable; the localities in which they have occurred
are enumerated below, viz.:—
In Lewisham—
One scarlatina and diptheria, Lewisham Park.
One fever and diptheria, Ditto.
One scarlatina maligna, Exchequer Place.
One gastric remittent fever, Hanover Street.
One scarlatina maligna, Mid Kent Cottages,
Blackheath—
One diarrhoea, Dartmouth Passage.
One fever, (Dartmouth Grove.
One diarrhoea, Mount Nod Place,
One fever, Bush Place.
Penge—
One diarrhoea, Penge Village.
One ditto, Alma Terrace.
One scarlatina maligna, Anerley Vale.
In Sydenham no deaths have taken place from zymotic disease.
Diarrhoea has been extremely prevalent, but generally of a mild form. A case,
attended by cramps and collapse, occurred at the North Surrey Industrial School,
Anerley, and recovered.
Scarlet fever and hooping cough arc more or less prevalent in most parts of the district.
I wish to call your attention to the undermentioned nuisances :—
In Blackheath—
The water closet attached to the Literary Institution is without water supply,
although situated in the building.
The dungheap in the yard adjoining Mr. Wray's, stationer, is full and offensive; it
should be emptied daily.
A filthy dungheap (which evidently has been accumulating some timo) and insufficient
slaughterhouse exist at Mr. Williams's, pork butcher.
No water is supplied to the following houses:—Mrs. Gerrard, Townsend, and Quail,
and adjoining house, Collin's Square.
At Mr. Thomson'8, flyman, offensive water occasionally flows from the yard, owing to
the absence of drainage.
At Pound's Mews the privy is full, and no drainage; a large accumulation of dung is
in the yard, one heap of which is placed against the pump, into which it drains. This
pump supplies several families.
At Mr. Matthews's, milkman, &c., there is still offensive drainage, and contaminated
water.
I have examined the premises of Mr. Buckingham, linen-draper, at whose house
serious illness (and one death) has occurred, attributed by the medical man in attendance
to the deleterious state of the drainage, and accumulations. I am informed by the
inhabitants that, upon the sewer being put down in this place, the liquid contents of the
cesspool only were removed; the solid contents being allowed improperly to remain.
At all events, the ground is saturated with the contents of an offensive and dangeroug
nature, and the yard has been lowered considerably, so as to get more deeply into the
filth. A water closet belonging to the neighbours (the fishmonger and poulterer
adjoining) is in danger of falling, and has no supply of water whatever. The pipe
drains under Mr. Buckingham's house, I am also informed, are only cemented with
clay, which, in a porous soil, I hold to be insufficient. (This I mentioned in my first
Report.)
The drainage of Montpelier Row, &c., into cesspools, liable to contaminate the
drinking water around, ought to be remedied.
Lewisham—
At Perrin's Buildings, Lewisham, the houses are in a dilapidated state, and the only
privy which supplies these houses is completely full, and without water supply. This
requires immediate attention.
At Hurst's Cottages, Loampit Vale, the closets are without water, and very offensive
and dangerous to health.
In Sydenham—
The houses belonging to Mr. Brown, in West Kent Park, require immediate
attention.