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public at large, for though in sanitary returns it is from year to year pr???
nently referred to, both as regards town and rural districts, neither
legislature nor the people seem alive to its growing importance to this co???
No one seems willing to look at this subject with more than passing inte???
or to calculate even the money loss which such an avoidable sacrifice of???
entails. I have in almost all my annual Reports drawn attention to???
general condition of the infant population of the cottage homes within
Fulham district, and I cannot omit again to say that something should
done by public effort to palliate the wretched and neglected state in which
many hundred children may at any time be found amongst us. I would
nestly and especially entreat the watchfulness of our clergy of all denominal???
to this subject, and urge them to seek for the early training of these ha???
little ones, before the seeds of vice and sickness and future misery, have he???
to germinate. There is in both these parishes full scope for the most a???
energy in this direction. It has its sunitary as well as its moral aspect; ???
dirt and filth in which the houses of the poor are sometimes found, a???
many instances directly consequent on the neglected and unguarded sta???.
which these wretched children exist from day to day. Totally uncared fo???
their parents, and with no friendly arm stretched out to help them, they ra???
in destructiveness and filthy habits, of which Wheatsheaf Alley and ???
similar spots offer too constant evidence.
The number of Births registered in the year have been 1461 ; in H???
mersmith 820, in Fulham 641, giving an excessof births over deaths of ???.
61 deaths have occurred in the Union House, 47 in Roman Catholic Inst???
tions, 11 in Alms Houses, and 11 in Lunatic Asylums. G3 Inquests ???
been held.
In the early part of the year, Fever prevailed in Willow Place and
neighbourhood of Munden Street, where 8 deaths occurred. There did
appear to be any direct cause for the outbreak, though I am of opinion
the soil on which the houses of the lower classes in this immediate locality;
built, is not of the most wholesome character. This is I am convinced
frequent source of sickness where no other evident cause is manifested. 1 h???
frequently in my Reports, referred to the practice of excavating for br???
earth on ground intended for building purposes, and of the filling in with re???
of any kind that can be obtained either cheap or without cost to the build
The settling of Fever in many spots continually, can in my opinion be cle???
traced to this cause, and hence the difficulty of fully eradicating such dis???
from them by the ordinary sanitary measures Emanations the result
gradual and continuous decomposition sap the health of the inhabitants ???
sure and unerring steps. The removal of the clay is not without its advantage
but these are more than counterbalanced by the pernicious influence of ???
Scavenger's Cart, and that objectionable but too common notice, "Rubbish ???
be shot here". I am so deeply impressed with the importance of this sub???
to the public health, that I am constrained again to draw attention to it.
In the latter part of 18G4 Small Pox was prevalent to a very consider???
extent in the adjoining Parish of Chiswick, and as was more or less to be ???
pected from its proximity, the disease eventually spread to the Western p???
of Hammersmith, 3 deaths occurring in December from it. Several cases
the disease have occurred since, though the mortality has not been seri???
As usual unvaccinated persons have been the means of spreading the infec???
in different localities, from their increased susceptibility to the Epidem