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Report of Dr. Young, Assistant Medical Officer of
Health to the London County Council, on the
Sanitary Condition and Administration of the
Parish of Fulham.
The sanitary district of Fulham is situated in the western part of the
metropolitan area on the north bank of the river Thames. The course
of the river here makes a considerable curve and forms the boundary of
the district on the south.west, south, and south.east. On the northwest
the boundary is formed by Hammersmith, and on the east and
north.east by Chelsea and Kensington.
The character of the soil of the district is practically the same
throughout the area, and consists of gravel and sand overlying the
London clav. During the recent construction of a sewer in the neighbourhood
of Dawes Road the depth of the gravel at this part was found
to be 27 feet.
The area of Fulham is 1,701 acres, including 8 acres of water. The
adjacent tidal water and foreshore is equal to an area of 156 acres.
Until the year 1886, Hammersmith and Fulham together formed one
sanitary district under the jurisdiction of the Fulham Board of Works.
By the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1885, this Board was
dissolved, and the parish of Fulham was constituted a separate sanitary
district under the control of the Vestry of Fulham as the local
authority.
The rateable value of the district at the present time is £511,738.
I have extracted from the annual reports of the Vestry the rateable
values at different periods since 1861, which show the large increase thai
has taken place in this respect since that date. The figures are as
follows:—
1861 £58,296 1881 £190,136
1871 100,121 1891 426,551
Under the Equalisation of Rates (London) Act, 1894, the amount
payable to Fulham from the Equalisation fund for the half.year ending
September, 1895, amounted to £4,299 0s. 8d., and for the previous half.
year to £4,402 is. 6d., which is equivalent to the production of a rate in
Fulham of nearly 4d. in the £1 for the whole year
For statistical purposes the sanitary area of Fulham forms one of the
sub.districts of the registration district of Fulham, which includes three
sub.districts, namely, Fulham, St. Peter, Hammersmith, and St. Paul,
Hammersith.
The census returns as to the population and number of inhabited
houses in the sub.district of Fulham show that a marked change has