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from a huge cesspool on the adjoining premises, 171, New
Bond Street, close to the party wall. This has been
abolished, a proper apparatus substituted, and the place
disinfected.
Providence Court, No. 7. Here was a leakage of water
from the drains of No. 6. New pipes have been laid
down under the Inspector's supervision.
Park Street, Grosvenor Square, No. 26. This house
has been entirely drained under the Inspector's advice;
the old drains abolished, cesspools emptied, new pipes laid
down, proper traps, &c.
Tenterden Street, No. 5. Here the complaint was
against a leakage of sewage water from Laurie and
Warner's coach factory, which, if it existed, has been
removed: meanwhile, a thoroughly ill-smelling back
kitchen underground, in which two female servants slept,
has been ventilated, a fire place put in, and the window
made to open and shut.
Lee's Mews, Park Street, No. 2. Visited in consequence
of the death of a child from diarrhoea; attic
618 feet cubic capacity, i. e. 9 feet by 11 feet, and 6 feet
3 inches high, let furnished at 4s. per week; much wants
cleansing, and roof repairing, which has been done.
Robert Street, No. 29. One child destroyed, another
blinded by scarlet fever. Apartments cleansed.
Queen Street, Oxford Street, No. 15. A case of fever.
The roof leaky; people shifting their beds in the night to
escape the wet; the closet out of repair and offensive;
and house partially dirty. These things have been remedied.
Ditto, No. 14. Here was a case of fever, removed to
St. George's Hospital; the child slept in a kind of wooden
loft in the yard over the water-closet. The occupier