[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham].

  • Lewisham (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
1862
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: City of London, London Metropolitan Archives

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    13 I present to you a complaint put into my hands by a Committee of the Board of Management of the North Surrey School, relating to an offensive nuisance resulting ?om the overflow of cesspools into the ditch bounding the school property. I wish also to direct your attention to the importance of affording some means to the ?habitants of Ravensbourne Park, of draining their premises, by the construction of a ?wer. The offensive state of parts of the Park from want of drainage is already efore you. The premises known as Eliza Place, Forest Vale, Sydenham, inhabited by Miss Croxon ?nd another, arc offensive and prejudicial to health, from an old cesspool left in ?raining the premises. Meteorological table and tables of mortality are appended as usual. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. Week ending Weight of Air. Barometer corrected. Mean inches. Temperature of Air. Thermometer. Prevailing winds. Rainy days. Amount of rain in inches. Highest. Lowest. Mean of daily readings. Mar. 30 29.526 58°6 36°5 4 6° 2 S.W. 3 0.36 April 6 29.678 56.3 30.4 43.5 s.w. 4 0.47 13 30.259 63.5 28.6 44.2 N.E. 0 0.00 20 30.123 61.8 32.5 454 E.&N.E. 0 0.00 MAY. DISTRICTS. BIRTHS. DEATHS. Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total. Blackheath 8 7 15 1 3 4 Lewisham 8 12 20 4 5 9 Union Workhouse — — — 4 2 6 Sydenham 18 22 40 9 10 19 Penge 11 4 15 4 2 6 Total 45 45 90 22 22 44 Gentlemen, During the month (Saturday, the 20th of April, to Saturday, the 25th of May), the births of forty.five males and forty.five females, total ninety, and the deaths of twenty. two males and twenty.two females, total forty.four, have been registered. The average mortality for the past six years shows a slight increase for this month. Hooping cough has been the most prevalent and the most fatal of the zymotic class of diseases. A fatal case of typhus fever occurred at Lady Well, and a rapidly fatal case of sore throat (not registered as malignant), also occurred in Exchequer Place, Lewisham. Nine deaths have occurred from zymotic disease, namely— Lewisham— May 1. Female, 25 years, typhus, Lady Well. „ 4. Male, 20 years, cynanche tonsillaris, Exchequer Place. Blackheath— April 29. Female, 3 years, hooping cough, Essex Place.