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cry amongst the Cottagers is still for Water, Water, without which all ???
sanitary appliances are at the best abortive, without which in ample
continuous flow, no community can he preserved in healthfulness. On
essential will depend the perfect working of our deep and costly Sewers
this alone will hang success in minor drainage matters. Water, that first
most important element of health and cleanliness, exists in name alone in ???
of our cottage property here, and consequently neither purity of person ???
dwelling can be ensured. I would therefore again respectfully urge ???
Board to memorialize the Government in pressing terms, for amendment ???
laws on this all important question, as well as for other alterations in the ???
tary Statutes, to which I have more than once alluded in my previous Repo???
I deem it a matter of some importance to draw the attention of your B???
to a late decision of Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood, in the cause of "???
Attorney General at the relation of the Conservators of the River Thames, ???
Mayor, Aldermen,& Corporation of Kingstonon Thames," as one vitallyaffec ???
the future purity of the water of that river, at the point from the neighbour ???
of which the Metropolitan supply is obtained, as well as to the influence it ???
have on its condition, when the rapidly increasing sewage of various large ???
growing towns higher up its course, shall in like manner be poured into ???
The Slaughter-houses and Cow-sheds in the District have been regu ???
inspected, and are generally in an improved and satisfactory condition.
Bake-houses have also been visited from time to time, and much improven???
in their general management has been effected under the Bake-house Reg???
tion Act. The provisions of this Statute have proved most acceptable ???
beneficial to the journeymen bakers, and with one or two exceptions,
Masters have shown a willingness to acquiesce in its requirements. A lo???
rooted custom in the trade of carrying on the manufacture of bread during ???
night, requires time to eradicate, but it is much to be hoped that a sys???
which has worked so much unnecessary misery and disease in a hard-work???
class of the community, will eventually give way to enlightenment ???
humanity. Indeed there is no injustice to any one in the effort to accomp???
an improvement in the condition of the journeyman baker. The inspect
and supervision of the Bake-houses carries with it no more hardship than ???
attending the control of the Slaughter-houses and Cow-houses, or the visit???
the Exciseman on behalf of the Revenue ; neither is there any unjust in???
ference with the liberty of the subject, for although every man is presumed
have a right to do what he likes with his own which is not morally wrony, neit???
the freedom of one nor even of many classes is consistent with a manifest ???
palpable injury to another. The Factory Act has oppressed no one, but ???
worked a wonderful good ; a temperate carrying out of the Bake-ho???
Regulation Act will not be without results.
It may not be an unfitting occasion here to draw the attention of y???
Board to what has always been an opprobrium to Hammersmith. Notw???
standing all the improvements in the local Sewerage already effected ???
proposed for future accomplishment, nothing as far as I am aware is cont???
plated for the abolition of one of the most flagrant public nuisances existi
in the district. The late Commissioners of Sewers constructed the Albion R???
Sewer some ten years since, leaving the Creek intact. The present Metropo???
Board have completed the Western intercepting Sewer at this point, but I
Creek remains in all its filthiness and unwholesomeness, pouring silently