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floor, and there is a small well, out of which the water is
baled every day.
Hertford Place.—Still more necessary is an examination
of the drainage of this place. It consists of 10 houses, containing
at the least 200 inhabitants, often many more. The
proprietor, at the request of Dr. Druitt, caused some improvements
to be made in the summer of 1856 ; but yet at present
the drainage is complicated and defective; and in certain
states of the wind, the houses from No. 2 to 8 inclusive, are
filled with gusts of foul air from the sewers. A thorough
drainage of Brick Street and Hertford Place would be a great
benefit to the whole neighbourhood.
2, Bruton Place, accommodates 15 families of 64 persons
in the house and in a range of buildings round the yard. As
there was much sickness in it, with no palpable cause, great
pains were taken to inspect every part of it. The following
particulars may be stated. Upper rooms offensive from
filthy slops thrown into the gutter inside the parapet; the
rain water pipes, contaminated by these matters, often have
currents of foul air passing up them ; some of the families
live in wooden lofts erected round the yard over the washhouses
and dust bin ; water supply in uncovered butt; only
two water closets for 64 people, one of them without water ; a
gully inside the house admits a most offensive current of air
from the sewer. The highly respectable proprietor has
caused all these things to be rectified.
10, Grosvenor Mews.—A house containing 12 families
and 52 persons. There is a rag and bottle dealer on the
ground floor. The drainage, according to medical testimony,
is defective, and requires examination.
Blomfield Place.—In No. 27 of this large lodging house,
there was 1st, a child ill with typhus; 2nd, another seized