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In 1868, the following sewers were added to our local drainage, viz.:
???London Road, Crown Road, Wellington Road, St. Thomas's Road and
???New Grove Road, in Fulham; and Farm Lane, and Denmark Road in
???Hammersmith. Up to this time, nearly 20 miles of sewerage works
???had been constructed within the District fully one half of which had
???been carried out by your Board, and a very considerable number of
???rivate sewers in connection with building enterprizes had been
???onnected with them.
Many thousand feet of open ditches had also been abandoned and
???filled in whilst up to the 26th March of this year (1868) no less than
???l3,514 nuisances of various descriptions had been investigated and
???removed by your Sanitary Committee.
The benefits of the Main Drainage Scheme, now in full operation,
were becoming sensibly felt, and the local drainage as devised by Mr.
Bean admirably harmonized with it. The absolute diversion of the low
???evel sewage from the Thames had not been actually accomplished,
but the temporary works at Cremorne for this purpose were in a
???forward state. The sickness and mortality of the year was not
characterized by any great excess, but Scarlet Fever had prevailed
considerably, both in London and in the Country.
In 1869 still further sewerage works had been completed by your
Board, and St, Peter's Square, Ravenscourt Park, the Black Bull
???ditch, and other minor localities had been attended to. No Epidemic
???sickness requiring special comment, though the general mortality from
???all causes was high,
In 1870 our then sewer necessities had almost been satisfied, and
???only a few works of local character remained to engage your attention.
Farm Lane, Cornwall Street, and Stanley Park Road, in Fulham; and
Mansion House Street, Hammersmith, were laid with pipe sewers.
Nothing remarkable affecting the public health occurred this year,
though scarlet fever continued to prevail, and small-pox, which had
for sometime been slumbering, showed evidence of revival.
In 1871 no sewerage works were carried out, but Blythe Lane and
Jits locality were still crying for improved drainage, and Lillie Road,
in Fulham, was reported in an unsatisfactory state. This year the
Census was again taken, and the marvellous increase in the population
of the Fulham District was made a matter of fact.
"The total population of the district was 66,064 against 39,591 in
1861, shewing an increase in the two parishes of 26,113, or nearly double
the number of the latter Census; the number of schedules distributed
to persons liable to make 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 previously.
In Fulham, the number of schedules issued were 5,246; occupied
houses, 3,460; empty houses, 546; houses building, 66; male