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The Board of Works for the Fulham District.
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT.
Seventeenth 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, 1873.
In the Sanitary department, the Board have caused to be
removed Nuisance cases as follows:—
Privies and Cesspools empited, repaired, &c. 928
Drains and Gullies cleansed, do. 1077
Mouses do. do. 948
Swine Nuisances removed 347
Miscellaneous 337
Houses benefitted in Fulham 804
Do- do. Hammersmith 537
The Board have carried out permanent Works in the undermentioned
places:—
York Road,' Andover Road, Askew Road, and Norland Road
North,—Footpaths paved and kerbed, and carriage-way formed;
Blythe Lane, and from High Road to Masboro' Road, a
Brick Sewer constructed.
The Board during the year obtained a Loan of ,£12,000 from
the Metropolitan Board of Works for carrying out certain Sewerage
Works which were required in the District.
Presented herewith is a copy of the Annual Report of the
Medical Officer of Health, to which the Board refer with great
pleasure, as shewing the continued sanitary improvement of the
Fulham District.