Sigma-compact,nowhere locally compact metric spaces can be densely imbedded in Hilbert space

It is shown that if H is a connected, locally contractible, separable, topologically complete metric space with the property that mappings of separable metric spaces into H are approximable by imbeddings (in particular, if H is Hilbert space), then every sigma-compact, nowhere locally compact metric space can be densely imbedded in H.