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Fulham 1871
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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The Board of Works for the Fulham District.
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT.
Sixteenth Annual Report, presented pursuant to 198th section of
the Metropolis Local Management Act 1855.
The Board of Works for the Fulham District present to the
Inhabitants of the District the following Summary of their proceedings
during the past year, and an Abstract of Receipts and Expenditure for
the year ending 25th March, 1872.
In the Sanitary department, the Board have caused to be removed
Nuisance cases as follows:—
Privies and Cesspools 303
Drains and Gullies cleansed and repaired 474
Houses do. do. 613
Swine Nuisances removed 439
Miscellaneous 284
Houses benefited in Fulham 496
Houses do. Hammersmith 707
The Board have had carried out permanent Works in the undermentioned
places :—
Alexandra Road — Footpaths paved and kerbed, and Carriage-way
formed Shaftesbury Road—Footpaths paved with Asphalte, kerbed
and channelled, and Carriage-way formed ; Maxwell Road—paved
and kerbed, and Carriage-way formed ; King's Road, Fulham—
Path formed, and Carriage-way widened by Eel-Brook and Parson s
Green.