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No. 52, South Molton Street.—Rendered damp by leakage
from a cesspool in the yard of 19, Woodstock Street.
Nos. 280 and 282, Oxford Street.—Obstructed drainage;
No. 42, Clarges Street—Insufficient means of preventing the
entry of gas from the sewer; No. 18, Grosvenor Street—
Old and dilapidated drainage.
No. 6, Little Stanhope Street; the Public Baths and
Wash-houses in Davies Street,; No. 1, Swallow Place; No.
94, Park Street; No. 5, Berkeley Street, Berkeley Square;
Three Kings' Yard, Piccadilly; No. 23, Cock Yard; Nos. 5
and 6, Robert Street; Nos. 3 and 4, Ducking Pond Mews ;
are premises where various causes of unhealthiness, chiefly
old, dilapidated, or ill-constructed drains, have been investigated
and removed, under the superintendence of the Medical
Officers of Health, or Inspector of Nuisances. In some
cases complaint was made by the occupiers; in others, the
investigation was set on foot by the Medical Officers, in consequence
of the presence of illness; amongst the latter was—
No. 5, Seamore Place.—A house let furnished, at a high
rent, in which the butler was seized with the acutest possible
symptoms of cholera, caused without doubt by the vapours
from the decayed drains, which poisoned the place in which
the servants slept. One other inmate had severe diarrhoea.
No. 3, Upper Belgrave Terrace, and No. 18, Little Chester
Street, a defective water supply to the closets. A notice
was served upon the owners in both instances and the work
was finished satisfactorily in the former.
Nos. 8 to 14, New Street Cottages, Hindon Street, were
without ashpits. The notice required a covered ashpit to be
erected for the use of each house, which was supplied.
At No. 31, Queen Street, the back yard and kitchen