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III. In the next place we will speak of various details,
which have been brought before the Sanitary Committee respectively,
and of works recommended and executed, since
the last report.
Carrington Street. — Nos. 6 and 8 have been newly
drained. The former drainage apparatus of No. 8 consisted
of pipes broken and disjointed; the earth under the house
was saturated with leakage, and the stench during the work,
such as to cause illness to the inmates. The earth was
sweetened with quicklime, under the inspection of Mr. Grant.
Hertford Place.—The agent for this property having been
convinced of the defective state of the drains, has caused
new pipes to be laid down from the front of every house.
Thus it may be hoped that, at last, these premises are put
into a sound condition.
No. 1, Weaver's Place, North Row.—Two deaths from
scarlet fever occurred here in January. An untrapped sink,
which admitted effluvia from the drains, has been set to
rights by the owner; and the occupier was enabled, by means
of a notice, to insist on the removal and cleansing of the clothes
which had been worn by the deceased children.
No. 1, Shepherd's Place, Upper Brook Street.—Here a
mother and son died of diphtherite. Defects in the drains
and ashpit were removed.
No. 9, Blenheim Street. —Attention was directed to this
house, in consequence of a death from scarlet fever, more especially
as two deaths from measles had occurred at No. 10, in
1856. The owners were induced to make a thorough investigation
of the drainage, with the result of discovering
that the whole of the sewage of No. 9 drained into a cesspool
under No. 10, the earth under which house was saturated