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Warwick Street, Pimlico, No. 136. A lady having complained
of a nuisance in the yard behind this house, it was
visited by the Medical Officer of Health and the Inspector
of Nuisances, who found the place very dirty and offensive
from the keeping of ducks and fowls;—the former have been
removed and the yard kept clean.
G-rosvenor Mow, No. 47. A most offensive gully opposite
has been cleansed and trapped.
Westbourne Street, No. 55. Offensive smells from the
drain in the kitchen. A notice has been served.
Upper Ebury Street, No. 86. Common privy and drains
in a defective state, dust-hole dirty, and the water closet in
the basement is out of repair,—smell very offensive. Diarrhœa,
which has been extremely less prevalent this autumn
than usual, attacked nearly all the inmates, consisting of
several families; and the medical attendant assigned the
bad state of the drains as a reason for its occurrence.
A notice was served on September 21st; since when the
house has been drained by a 6-inch pipe drain, the lower
part lime-whited, the inlets to the drains trapped, and a new
closet erected in the area.
Eccleston Place, No. 17. The gully opposite stopped up,
and complaint of smell from the ventilator communicating
with sewer. The gully has been cleansed and a small box
containing charcoal was recommended to be placed in the
course of the draught of the ventilator. Wood and peat
charcoal are the most effective in absorbing gases within the
pores, so that when it is exposed to an atmosphere containing
the putrid vapours of decomposition it absorbs them and
causes decomposition from their uniting with the atmospheric
oxygen.
Lupus Street, No. 66. Bad smell and dampness in the
back kitchen from the cistern in the yard of No. 68,