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"whilst it is not within ray province to enter upon the financial
"difficulties which may attend the prosecution of the suggested Sewers."
"In Hammersmith, then, Bradmore, the seat of Cholera in its former
"visitations, may not inappropriately be mentioned first. Here, many
"houses yet depend on the cesspool system. The western side of St.
"Peter's Square, Beavor Lane, and Hog Lane, have no efficient sewerage
"and the houses in Bridge Street, ranging on the Creek, still pour their
"filthy sewerage into that open receptacle, carrying the risk of
"pestilence in its wake."
"Waterloo Street and South Street, with their contiguous thorough"fares,
demand attention also on the score of Drainage, for, although
"not absolutely without, the present means are very inefficient, and the
"principal outlets still gape upon the Eastern bank of the pestiferous
"Creek. Shortlands, again, has strong sanitary grounds for an
"improvement of its drainage. Nothing but cesspools at present exist,
"or the most inefficient pipe drainage into the old ditch drain in King
"Street East, though, probably, this may now be connected with the
"new sewer; the pipes, however, from the houses where they exist,
"must still be on nearly a dead level. This locality is always a fruitful
"one in sickness, as the books of the Union officers will show. From
"the Wooden Bridge eastward, along the Mall to the Chancellor's
"Estate, the sewage of the houses south of the intercepting sewer con"tinue
to pour their contents into the river. The sewers and drains here,
"both public and private, require to be reversed and connected with
"the intercepting line. The Fulham Road Sewer, though, I believe
"ordered, has not been begun. Brook Green Place, alias "the Rookery,"
"a frequent source of sickness, has very inefficient sewerage, which
"requires to bo deepened."
"The open ditch in Wood Lane is generally in a most offensive
"condition, and should be promptly deepened and covered in. The
"cesspools of some of the new houses in Farm Lane are already over"flowing;
a deep public sewer, here, between the Gold Hawk and
"Albion Roads, is becoming absolutely necessary. In Fulham, much
"more extensive areas are as yet entirely unprovided for. The lines
"of Sewers already executed run only through the leading thorough"fares,
leaving many thickly populated localities to cesspool drainage;
"and many of the parish Roads in a state of swamp in heavy rains.'"
"From Walham Green to Fulham Town by Percy Cross, no main
"sewer exists. Between Crown Road and Dawes Lane, and immediately
"in the neighbourhood of St. Thomas's Church, a very large number of
"houses must still remain undrained, unless a public sewer of ample
"size be built between these points, forming a junction with the
"intercepting line in Dawes Lane. The Bishops Road from the Mitre
"Tavern southward, is almost always in a state of nuisance for want
"of drainage.
"The construction of a deep pipe sewer in this road, from the Mitre
"Tavern to Wheatsheaf Alley, would prove a public benefit, and at the