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Fulham 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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Power to purchase
lands outside improvement
area.
Sec. 25 provides that the Council may purchase additional
lands adjoining any area being dealt with as an improvement
scheme, under the Artisans' Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875.
Appeal against decision
of Superintending
Architect.
Sec. 28 provides that any person aggrieved by the definition
of any line of frontage by the Superintending Architect, may
appeal to a special tribunal to be appointed.
Power to define centre
of street.
Sec. 30 provides that the Council may define the line
constituting the centre of any street formed or laid out after
the passing of this Act.
Power to make Byelaws
re plastering, and
with respect to filling
in any excavations on
site of houses.
Sec. 31 enables the Council to make Bye-laws with respect
to materials used as plastering, and with respect to the mode
in which any excavation shall be filled in that may be made
within 3 feet of the site of a house or building.
Notice to be given to
Vestry of intention to
take down any part of a
building within 10 feet
of a highway.
Hoarding to be erected.
Sec. 32 provides that notice shall be given to the Vestry
previous to building or taking down any building or wall
within 10 feet of a public thoroughfare; and that a proper
hoard or fence, with convenient footway, &c., shall be erected
before commencing building operations.
Penalty.
The penalty for non-compliance with these regulations is
£5, and 40s. a day.
Line to be defined in
all streets to which
building abuts.
Sec. 33 provides, with some important exemptions, that the
Superintending Architect in defining the general line of
building in any street, so far as affects any building erected
after the passing of this Act, and which may abut on other
streets, shall decide the line of building in such other streets,
and no building shall be erected beyond such line in such
other streets.
Existing buildings not
to be extended within
prescribed distance.
Sec. 34 provides that no existing building shall be extended
within the prescribed distance of 20 feet from the centre of
the roadway.
Carriageways to have
both ends open.
Sec. 35 provides that all new carriageways shall communicate
at both ends with a public carriageway.
Buildings not to exceed
90 feet in height.
Sec. 36 provides that no new buildings except a church,
chapel, &c. shall be erected of a greater height than 90 ft., &c.
Power to negotiate re
water supply of London.
Sec. 38 gives the Council power to make enquiries and
conduct negotiations in reference to the water supply of
London.
PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) CONSOLIDATED BILL.
This is a Bill of very great importance. I reported on the draft of this Bill,
and the following notes from my report refer to the chief points for consideration
:—
Sub-Sec. 2.—Straw should be only laid with the permission of the "Local
Authority," which words should be inserted.
Sub-Sec. 3.—It should be made an offence to remove "at any time" offensive
material in carts "without proper coverings."
Sec. 19 provides that certain trades may not be started at all in London;
others, which are named or to be afterwards named by the L.C.C., may not be

LIST OF TREES BELONGING TO THE VESTRY.

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Streets.Ordinary size plane trees.Large size trees.
King's Road78-
Harwood Road64
Barclay Road41
Walham Grove37
St. Oswald's Road8
Lisgar Terrace14
Portland Place-19
Auriol Road42
Barons Court Road9
Yereker Road23
Fulham Park Gardens17
Rigault Road3
Landridge Road5
Betteridge Road38
Munster Road14
East End Road76
Church Row5
Effie Road3
Comeragh Road Purser's Cross Road3
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Rectory Road6
Talgarth Road1
Whittingstall Road4
Crookham Road15
Wandsworth Bridge Road100
Total50560