This Memorial sheweth,—

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 40,000l., 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.

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.

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.

FOOTNOTES.

[7a] See page [21].

[7b] See page [23].

[14] It is stated by Lord Ashley, in a Letter published by him on the 16th instant, that not a single case of Cholera, and two only of Diarrhœa, which yielded speedily to medical treatment, occurred in all the establishments of the Labourers’ Friend Society in London. And this statement was confirmed by the experience of the Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Poor.