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Here was a complaint of defective drainage creating a nuisance
in the adjoining house, which was remedied on application.
North Audley Street, No. 20. Here the lady who occupies
the upper part of the house, as a milliner and lodgingkeeper,
complained of the nuisance occasioned by the conversion
of part of the back premises, opening into North
Row, into a stable. The Committee, however, determined
that it was a case in which the aggrieved party should proceed
by civil action, and not one for the interference of the
Local Authority.
George Yard, No. 1. This is a stable originally attached
to No. 18, Brown Street, which house, after years of neglect,
has lately been entirely newly drained by pipes, and purified
by the abolition of four cesspools. Still the house remained
unwholesome, and it was found at last that the drainage of
the stable in George Yard passed into the basement of it,
where it had no outlet, but soaked into the earth. This is
one of the instances that come under notice almost every
week, shewing the expediency of thoroughly digging out and
examining the basement of a house whilst it is under repair;
for however perfect any man's drainage may be, he never
can be sure otherwise, that his basement may not be the receptacle
of filth from his neighbours ; owing to the lamentable
fact which we deplore now that it is too late, that when
water closets were introduced, no sufficient means were provided
for carrying off the foul water, but any drain which
might be used harmlessly for rain-water was made the receptacle
for it.
Providence Court, Nos. 1 and 2. These houses afford an
illustration of the remark just made: for their drain passed
under the adjoining house, No. 19, George Street, Grosvenor
Square; and, never having been adapted for sewage, had