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the occupants of such places, if ill, are discharged, and usually
become recipients of parochial or hospital medical relief.
No. 15. Wonderfully dirty, dilapidated, and ill-drained.
Cesspools have been abolished, and pipe drainage introduced,
to the great comfort of the poor servants who occupied the
sleeping apartments.
No. 25. A large undrained livery stable. A notice has
been served.
No. 47. The same.
No. 49. The sleeping apartments have been better ventilated,
at our suggestion.
Farm Street, No. 17. An offensive dung-pit cleansed.
Dover Yard. The same.
Providence Court. The two cow-sheds lime-whited.
Shepherd's Court, No. 1, was offensive and dirty.
No. 7. Offensive from keeping fowls and rabbits. Floors
dangerous from dilapidation.
No. 9. Back premises dirty.
Smoke nuisance. No. 19, and the adjoining houses in
Old Bond Street, much annoyed by fumes from a chimney
opposite, belonging to 12, Albemarle Street. As the chimneys
were dilapidated and dangerous, the case was referred
to the District Surveyor.
Albemarle and Stafford Streets. Two huge overflowing
cesspools were discovered in the vaults of No. 5, Stafford
Street, saturating all the earth around, and overflowing into
the vaults of a wine merchant adjoining. The wine merchant's
men were made sick on entering the cellars in the
morning, and their eyes smarted with the ammonia given off.
The cesspools have been filled up, and new sewerage provided
in Stafford Street.
Dover Street, Nos. 17 and 18. Here was a leakage
through the kitchen walls of most offensive matter, from a