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be carried-out until the main trunk Lines and outlets were constructed,
they urged upon the Metropolitan Board of Works the
necessity of commencing the main drainage of the district, and
are happy to report successfully in so far as concerns the northern
part of the parish of Hammersmith.
The Acton line of sewer, now constructing along the Uxbridgeroad
is of capacious size, and will afford an efficient outlet for the
sewerage of that part of the parish of Hammersmith north of the
Gold-Hawk-road; and, as it has ever formed a part of the Intercepting
Scheme of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the payment
of cost of construction will be metropolitan and not local: thus, at
a mere nominal charge, the inhabitants of that increasingly populous
district will have the means of removing numerous nuisances and
of being provided with the most ample house drainage.
The sewage, also, from Woodstock-road and Richmond-terrace
will be diverted from the open ditches and extensive morass abutting
on Shepherd's-Bush-road, and that flowing from a considerable portion
of Shepherd's-Bush to the same places will be intercepted.
The local drainage works which have been constructed from
Blythe House and Messrs. Macalpine's Factory have also diverted
the sewage from the said morass, so that it may be anticipated that
this place locally known as the "Dismal Swamp," from which much
reasonable apprehension of danger to public health has arisen, will
occasion no further trouble in that respect.
The Board refer with satisfaction to the improved sanitary
condition of the district under their jurisdiction: the deaths therein
have been below the number of those of last year proving, as they
believe, that their earnest and persevering efforts for the removal
of nuisances, and the means taken to prevent their recurrence,
have had a most beneficial effect.
During the past year 599 cases of nuisance have been removed,
as shewn in the analysis as follows:—
Privies and cesspools emptied, &c
258
Drains and gullies cleansed, repaired, &c.
106
Houses cleansed and repaired .
74
Pig cases removed
56
Dust-bins made
25
Miscellaneous
80
599
Houses benefited in Fulham by the removal
of such nuisances
236
„ Hammersmith
293
529