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OCTOBER.
DISTRICTS.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Blackheath
7
2
9
—
1
1
Lewisham
8
7
15
6
3
9
Sydenham
11
9
20
6
9
15
Penge
3
1
4
4
2
6
Total
29
19
48
16
15
31
Gentlemen,
The mortality of the district during the month, as obtained from the Registrars'
returns, has been 31.
In the Blackheath Ward only one death has been registered. The health of the
district has been generally good, an unusually small amount of sickness having prevailed;
but still epidemic poison has attacked those living in unfavourable localities, and therefore,
in a favourable state for the reception of disease.
Amongst the causes of death I have to mention the following eight, with the situations
in which they have occurred:—
Lewisham—
27th Sept., Typhus, Rushey Green.
3rd Oct., Diarrhoea, Hanover Street.
Sydenham—
23rd Sept., Diarrhoea, Back of Bird-in-Hand, Forest Hill.
30th Sept., Croup, Raglan Street.
28th Sept., Hooping cough, West Kent Park.
8th Oct., Diptheria, Bath Place.
10th Oct., Scarlet fever, Sydenham Place.
19th Oct., Scarlet fever, Rock Hill.
The offensive drain at the end of Raglan Street, Sydenham, still remains the same as
formerly.
The roads in West Kent Park are, some of them, almost impassable ; and the whole
of the ground is insufficiently drained.
At Bath Place, Wells Road, the drainage is insufficient; and no water is supplied to
flush the closets.
The death from scarlet fever on Rock Hill occurred in a brickmaker's undrained hut.
The road at the back of the Forester Inn, leading to Hindsley's Place, is one
impassable swamp. A severe case of dysentry has occurred here.
Lewisham—
Some months ago I reported upon the state of Hope's Cottages, Lewisham; they are as
then, and require your attention on account of their insufficient drainage, and total
want of water supply.
The state of Pear Tree, or Schloss Alley, in which cholera commenced in 1849, and in
which fever is now occurring, requires prompt attention.
Penge—
The drainage of the upper part of Norwood still runs into the pond, or piece of old
canal bounding one side of the Anerley Gardens. This is at times, in the summer,
extremely offensive, and it is important that some means of diverting the sewage into a
covered tract should be adopted.
Frorn the constant building, and, therefore, constant accession to the quantity of
sewage, this^ has become daily more necessary, and the better course would be, in my
opinion, to insert a sewer and drain away the water altogether. It would be well to
take the subject into consideration at once, as, in case the latter plan should be adopted,
the winter season would be the safest time to expose the filthy mud accumulated under
the water.
Meteorological tables and tables of mortality are appended as usual.