That the Sewerage of the parish of Fulham, containing by
admeasurement 1,648 acres, with a population, according to the census
of 1841, of 9,319 persons, but since very considerably increased,
with about 2,000 inhabited houses, and with a property assessed at
40,000_l._, is at this time in a most defective state;
That some portions of the parish are liable to a Sewers rate, without
deriving any benefit from the application thereof;
That nearly the whole of the houses have no drainage whatever beyond
that of cesspools, which in many of the districts occupied by the
labouring classes, who are chiefly employed in the market gardens,
are badly constructed, placed in situations closely contiguous to the
dwellings, and wholly inadequate to provide for the large
accumulation of dirt constantly formed and decomposing in such
localities;
That during the prevalence of the recent epidemic, the mortality for
nine successive weeks, ending on the 8th instant, exceeded fourfold
the average mortality of the same season during the five preceding
years, nearly one-half of the deaths being certified to the
Registrar, by the medical practitioners who attended the cases, as
having arisen from cholera, in many instances of the most malignant
character, and nearly all in those districts where the drainage is
most neglected, and among the poorest classes of the inhabitants;
And that, without insisting upon the personal privations and
discomforts accruing at all times to the Parishioners at large, and
especially to the poor, who are the worst provided with means to
correct and palliate them, from such a state of things, the parish
will be exposed, upon any recurrence of so fearful a visitation, to
the same calamitous results, which the Memorialists believe might
mainly be averted by an uniform and effectual Sewerage, extending
throughout the inhabited portions thereof.
The Memorialists, therefore, desire to represent to the Metropolitan
Commissioners of Sewers their earnest desire that they will, as soon
as may be compatible with the other demands upon them in the
fulfilment of their arduous office, direct their special inquiries
and care to the parish of Fulham, and provide it with a complete
system of Sewers, adequate to the wants of its large and continually
increasing population.
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LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS _to the Fund for providing_ PUBLIC PUMPS, _for the
use of the poor Inhabitants of Fulham_. (6th NOVEMBER, 1849.)
_£_ _s._ _d._
Baker, Rev. R. G. 10 0 0
Bathurst, L. Esq. 5 0 0
Batty, Rev. E. 1 10 0
Bell, Wm. Esq. 5 5 0
Beltz, S. Esq. 25 0 0
Burgoyne, Lady 5 0 0
Chasemore, Mr. W. 1 1 0
Chasemore, Mr. H. 1 1 0
Dawson, Mr. 1 1 0
Flicker, Mr. 1 1 0
Garratt, Rev. Wm. 3 0 0
Green, Mr. James 1 0 0
Gunter, J. Esq. 5 0 0
King, Mr. W. 1 0 0
Knight, Mr. J. 2 2 0
Lindsay, Mr. J. W. 2 0 0
Lock, Mr. P. 0 10 0
London, the Lord Bishop of 50 0 0
Maclean, Major 1 1 0
Matyear, Mr. R. 2 2 0
Moseley, Mr. A. 2 2 0
Nelson, P. Esq. 5 0 0
Osborn, Mr. H. 1 0 0
Palmer, J. Horsley, Esq. 25 0 0
Pearson, Rev. T. 2 2 0
Pollock, Mr. J. H. 1 0 0
Porter, the Misses 10 0 0
Potter, Mr. W. 1 0 0
Stanham, Mr. G. 1 1 0
Sulivan, L. Esq. 25 0 0
Sutherland, Dr. 5 0 0
Walford, T. Esq. 10 0 0
Anonymous, by ditto 25 0 0
Walpole, C. Esq. 5 0 0
Wild, Mr. J. 2 2 0
Wilshin, Mr. 1 0 0
Wilson, Mr. J. T. 0 10 6
Wing, C. Esq. 2 0 0
Wood, R. R. Esq. 25 0 0
Wrangham, Mr. Serjeant 20 0 0
Wright, Mr. J. 1 0 0
£293 11 6
_Any further Contributions to this Fund will be thankfully received by_
J. HORSLEY PALMER, ESQ. _the Treasurer_; _by the Parochial Clergy_, _or
by_ MR. HACKMAN, _the Vestry Clerk_.
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