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has boon taken, and I am enabled to lay before you the actual
numbers of our population, together with the number of inhabited
houses, &c. From a summary furnished to me by Mr. Cornell, the
Superintendent Registrar, it will bo seen that the total population of
the District is now 66,064, against 39,951 in 1861, shewing an increase
in the two Parishes of 26,113, or nearly double the number of the
latter Census. From the accompanying abstract it will bo seen the
number of Schedules distributed to persons liable to make the Returns
were, in Hammersmith, 9,404; the number of occupied houses, 6,717;
empty houses, 876; houses building, 313; male inhabitants, 19,292;
female inhabitants, 23,400; total inhabitants in Hammersmith alone,
42,692, or 2,741 more than the united population of Fulham and
Hammersmith ten years since. In Fulham the number of Schedules
issued were 5,246; occupied houses, 3,460; empty houses, 546;
houses building, 66; male inhabitants, 10,970; female inhabitants,
12,402; total inhabitants, 23,372. In Hammersmith the number of
inhabitants have increased 18,279, and in Fulham, 7,834, during the
last decennial period. Compared with the previous Census of 1851,
the population of the former Parish has increased 24,932, and Fulham,
11,486, during the intervening twenty years. Seeing, then, the onward
progress of our numbers, it will not do to slumber in our Sanitary
precautions. Much as has undoubtedly been done by your Board in
the way of drainage, there are some parts of the District yet requiring
attention in this respect. Notably a largo tract of land already
covered thickly with houses, and many more proposed to bo created
thereon, viz., that lying north of Blythe Lane, between it and the
Kensington Railway, is in a sewage-locked condition. The prevalence
of disease and of nuisance in some of the streets of this locality, Ceylon
and Porten Roads particularly, has often been brought under the
notice of your Board, and the time has undoubtedly arrived when the
frequently-proposed outlet in Blythe Lane should be constructed. I
am of opinion that no time should bo lost in prosecuting so necessary
a work, for assuredly the Cholera, should it come, will find much food
there to feed on, if it remain neglected; not the loss urgent also is the
drainage of Star Lane, Fulham. The necessity for this I have often
urged before the Sanitary Committee, and much discussion has taken
place upon the point, but nothing has been done. This part of our
house should also at once be put in order. There are some other