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The drainage has been remodelled, and the drains ventilated
and cut off from all connection with the interior of the
building, after the plan originally adopted at the Infirmary.
New reception and probationary wards have been
erected.
The Schoolroom and dormitories have been ventilated,
the old windows removed, and sash windows provided.
All cases of contagious diseases are sent away immediately
to a Fever Hospital.
The practice of admitting sick children has been discontinued,
and none are now allowed to enter the School.
Under these circumstances, the School, which always was
healthy, must necessarily continue to be so, and only one
death was registered ; s having taken place within the School
during the year.
Union Workhouses.
The average resident population of the Lewisham Union
Workhouse during the year 1874 was 170. The number of
paupers who passed through the establishment numbered 783,
besides the reception of 3,841 vagrants.
11 births took place (10 of which were illegitimate) and
39 deaths, 13 of which occurrcd to non-parishioners.
Penge is within the Croydon Union, but contributed
only 01 inmates to the Croydon Workhouse.
The Board's Hospital.
Six cases were admitted during the year to the Board's
Hospital, at Hither Green, and were all discharged cured,
viz.:—
Female, 27, typhoid fever; female, 13, scarlet fever;
female, 10, scarlet fever; female, 20, scarlet fever; female, 38,
roseola; male, 40, smallpox.
It has been determined by the Board that whenever
space permits cases from neighbouring districts should be
admitted to the Hospital, upon their complying with the
rules of thelnstitution and paying for board and necessary
medical attendance.