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Carrington Street, a cul de sac at the back of Shepherd's
Market, contains 12 houses and one small cottage. About
six of the houses are of the better class, and contain each
from 12 to 20 inhabitants; the remainder from 20 to 40.
There has been of late much sickness in the street, and
five deaths in three months, four of young persons. No. 4
had long been very offensive in the basement, although clean
in every other respect; the owner has been induced to
examine the drains, and, as they were defective, to substitute
new pipes; the offensive saturated earth has been mixed with
quick lime, and the house is now sweet.
No. 10 required some improvement to the water supply,
which is not yet completed. In the yard of this house was a
collection of filthy bedding, which was caused to be removed
as a nuisance by Notice issued for that purpose. It belonged
to a lodger who had left; and it well shewed one mode in
which the germs of fever might lurk and be propagated.
No. 12 required some little improvement, which the proprietor
readily effected.
Nos. 6 and 8 are still dirty, overcrowded, and ill-smelling,
and appear likely to remain so unless the owners are compelled
to do something.
No. 8 contains about 40 inhabitants.
Brick Street.—The houses on the north side of this street,
between Engine Street and Carrington Place, have been
several times visited by fever, not attributable to the habits
or circumstances of the highly respectable persons who live in
them. On these grounds, as well as to remedy the dampness
of the neighbourhood, the Sanitary Committee have recommended
an examination of the drainage. In one of the
kitchens, which is also used as a sleeping apartment, the
water stands regularly at a level of about a foot under the