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come thoroughly rotten and dilapidated, and a great nuisancc
to the owner of No. 19, who had put his own drains into
good condition. The Committee were of opinion that the
houses in Providence Court should be drained directly into
the sewer in that court, which the owner willingly agreed to.
George Street, No. 24. Here a dirty and offensive kitchen
has been cleansed.
Mount Street, 10a. The back parlour of this house, inhabited
by a medical gentleman, had for years been most unwholesome,
owing, as was discovered after a most tedious and
laborious investigation, to a cesspool, and to an old brick
short in the wall, conveying sewage from a water-closet in
the adjoining house. The evil is now remedied.
Robert Street, No. 6. The kitchen, inhabited by a poor
family, rendered offensive by the dilapidated state of the
drains, which have been repaired.
No. 14. A clean respectable house, but the basement
and workshop in the back yard very offensive from some fault
in the drains.
No. 15, also is very offensive from the same cause.
No. 16, has been allowed to become dangerously dirty,
through long occupation of every room by a family, without
a wholesome whitewashing. Legal proceedings were authorized
in this case, if required.
Market Street, No. 3. A small ruinous house, rendered
damp and offensive by an escape of water under the floor.
Houses at the corner of Maddox and Regent Streets. Here
is one of those complicated and vicious arrangements of
drainage which we have before referred to. The Occupier of
223a, Regent Street, has long complained of unwholesome
smells in his house: he has been ill: one shopman has had
sore throat; another, carbuncles: his jewellery is speedily
tarnished; and his customers grumble at the smell when they