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appropriate at this season of the year) would be to cut down
and burn all the trees attacked.
Trees of a different kind might also be at this season of
the year planted to supply the place of those destroyed.
Trees in Cemeteries.
The great importance of planting cemeteries with trees,
shrubs, grass, &c., ought to be considered, as vegetation not
only separates the noxious products of decomposition, but
converts them to a useful purpose, and is a source of ornament
and health.
STATISTICS OF TIIE YEAR 1875.
In Table I. (page 32), will be found the estimated
population, inhabited houses, and the births, deaths, and
marriages, in the district during the year 1875.
In Table II. (page 33), the annual rate of mortality,
death rates amongst children, and deaths in public institutions.
In Table III. (page 34), deaths registered at several
groups of ages from different causes in the year 1875.
In Table IV. (page 40), the mortality from certain
classes of diseases, and proportion to population and to 1000
deaths in 1875.
In Table V. (page 41), the number of deaths in the 10
years, 1865 to 1875, from the seven principal zymotic
diseases, and the number in 1875.
In Table VI. (page 42), the Inspectors' Report of sanitary
work, &c., completed in the year ending December 31st,
1875.
In Table VII. (page 43), the number of inhabited
houses, the estimated population, 1875, with the birth and
death rate in the different Registrars' Sub-districts in
Lewisham Parish and the Hamlet of Penge, together
comprising "the Lewisham District."