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Row, Grosvenor Market, Robert Street, and Hart Street.
It is a significant fact, that one gentleman left the Committee
in the middle of their labours, complaining that
the air of these houses gave him a sore-throat.
The Petty Sessions for Licensing Slaughter-houses was
holden at Mount Street, in October, 1859. There are
now fourteen of these places in the Hanover and May
Fair Sub-districts, and nineteen in the Belgrave.
VIII. We now proceed to the details of various cases
brought before the Committee of Vestry for carrying
out the Nuisances' Removal and Disease Prevention
Acts, at their monthly meetings.
Unwholesome Bread. It is right to put on record,
that Dr. Druitt informed the Committee, on the 18th
October, that he had received letters from a solicitor,
claiming compensation and apology, for his proceedings in
reference to some unwholesome bread sold to inhabitants
of Grosvenor Mews, by a baker at Westminster. (See
Report VIII., p. 10). The committee desired him to
reply, by asking whether the solicitor wished the case
to be brought before the Vestry of St. George, Hanover
Square, since which nothing more has been heard of thecase.
Analysis of Bread. In the course of the discussion
which took place relative to this matter, Dr. Druitt informed
the Committee, that in December 1856 he had caused an
analysis to be made of the bread used in the parish,
including one home-made loaf, one loaf from the workhouse,
and fourteen other loaves purchased at various
shops, in such a way as to include the greatest possible
variety of price and quality; for the price varied from
7½d. to lOrf. per 4-lb. loaf.
It may stated: first, that a very experienced