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were completely saturated with sewage, and the area
contained a large quantity of the same offensive matter.
Such a state of things became a serious nuisance to the
numerous customers who frequented the house, and probably
would have occasioned disease but for its speedy removal.
No. 12, Upper Belgrave Place.—Drainage stopped up
and smell offensive. Work finished.
No. 31, Upper Eaton Street.—An offensive smell caused
by a cesspool, no cover to ash-pit, and gully in the washhouse
untrapped. It was recommended that the cesspool
be emptied and filled up; the privy be panned and
trapped; water laid on properly; the drainage to be connected
with the sewer, and the gully trapped. Work
finished.
No. 18, Burton Street.—This place is a stable yard ; the
stabling for 15 horses; there is a dwelling above, no water
to the closet. The stables are badly drained, and apparently
five or six houses drain into the same drain. Notice
made out to the owner.
No. 40, Kinnerton Street.—Family not sufficiently supplied
with water owing to the cistern being locked up. This
was a hard case. A poor patient under the care of Dr.
Aldis at the St. Paul and St. Barnabas' Dispensary, residing
over a stable, complained to him of a deficient supply of
water for domestic purposes. The landlord had agreed to
allow her the use of water laid on in the stables, when she
first took the lodging, and at some future time to extend
the supply to her room ; but recently he had taken away the
key of the door through which she was obliged to pass in
order to obtain water, so that, whenever the family needed
water she was compelled to apply to him for the key. One