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The Board have also engaged to construct a new sewer from the
Creek to the Broadway, and are taking measures to borrow the
money so that the work may be performed by the ensuing autumn.
At the time when the Metropolitan Board of Works were about to
commence their plan for the Western Drainage, it came to the
knowledge of the Board of Works for the Fuiham district that such
plans contemplated the bringing of the sewage of nearly the whole of
the parishes of Kensington and Chelsea, as well as the whole of the
sewage of Hammersmith and Fuiham, to Sand's End, to be there
deodorized, and thence to run the deodorized matter into the river
Thames at a point not far Westward of Cremorne Gardens. The
Board, supported by the opinion of the district, of the medical
officer of health, and a large body of scientific gentlemen,
considering that this scheme would create a nuisance most extensive
and injurious to health and property in the neighbourhood,
determinedly opposed the same, and they are happy to state with
complete success, by causing its abandonment. The Metropolitan
Board have since agreed to carry the sewage above mentioned
into the low-level sewer to Barking Creek, making a temporary
outlet at Counter's Creek until such low-level sewer is constructed.
The Board are happy to report that they have at last succeeded
in removing the whole of the small cottage property called "Little
Wapping," and have thus given facilities for a carriage road direct
from the Lower Mall to the centre of Hammersmith; and further
that they have obtained the consent of the copyholder, Mr. Denny,
and the leaseholder, Mr. Soper, to the setting back of a house in
King Street West, on the payment of the sum of £180, thus effecting
a great improvement much needed in that part of the town.
During the past year the Board received an application from the
office of Stamps and Taxes for the use of a room at Broadway
House, as an office to conduct the business in that department for
this district, and they have let a room for that purpose at the rent
of £25 per annum, including attendance. The Board have also
arranged that the Kensington Vestry should repair the Hammersmith
portion of the Norland Road for the sum of £35 per annum.
During the last Session of Parliament an Act was passed to
amend the Metropolis Local Management Act, in which was
incorporated many suggestions from this Board, particularly those
relating to the paving of New Streets and the redistribution of the
debts of the Commissioners of Sewers. By the provisions of the Act
relating to this latter subject a sum of £3,198 18s. 3d. has to be
returned to Hammersmith, which has been duly credited in the
books of the Metropolitan Board to that parish, to be employed in
liquidation of future precepts, which it is estimated will exempt
Hammersmith for a period of two years from the payment of the
general precepts of that Board, besides reducing the charges in future