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MORTLAKE.
YEAR.
Inhabited
Houses.
Houses
Building.
Uninhabited
Houses.
Males.
POPULATION.
Total.
Females.
1821
403
13
16
1169
1315
2484
1831
46O
32
1284
1414
2698
1841
485
1
31
1301
1477
2778
1851
542
4
12
1440
167O
3110
l86l
652
15
22
1703
2075
3778
1871
919
14
91
2345
2774
5119
l88l
1132
25
77
3008
3322
6330
That your Memorialists believe it will be apparent to your
honourable Board, upon reference to the foregoing figures,
that, if even in the year 1827 proper accommodation was
made for the traffic of that period the vast growth of London
alone, without reference to the general traffic passing through
the Metropolis and Greater London, will be sufficient to
prove that to meet the present requirements, and the
requirements of the immediate future, it is absolutely
necessary that some further provision should be made.
That your Memorialists do not presume to point out to your
honourable Board the alleged weakness and consequent
insecurity of the existing Bridge, as your Memorialists are
informed that the facts in connexion with the structural
defects of the Bridge have been already fully reported upon
by the officers of your honorable Board.
That your Memorialists submit, that the existing Bridge at
Hammersmith, with its narrow fair way, of fourteen feet
only, through the two suspension towers, is dangerous and
unfit for general traffic, and is utterly inadequate to meet
the exigencies of the present greatly increased and rapidly
increasing traffic, which crosses and recrosses the said Bridge;
that having regard to the statistics relating to London, to
Greater London, to the Parish of Hammersmith, and the other
parishes enumerated, the time has now arrived when your
honorable Board should be asked to make provision for the