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Weaver's Place, North Row, No. 2. A decayed and
offensive state of the drains.
Norfolk Street, No. 17. A nuisance occasioned by
leakage from the drains of the next house.
Cowley's Yard, White Horse Street. Leakage of water
caused by the carelessness of neighbours.
In each of the foregoing twelve cases, various nuisances
detrimental to the health and comfort of the complainants,
have been speedily and effectually remedied by the intervention
of the Local Authority and agency of the Inspector,
without legal proceedings and expense.
Grosvenor Street, Nos. 64 and 65, and Little Grosvenor
Street, No 12. In this case too, a most complicated cause
of nuisance has been rectified by the same means. Under
the party wall, separating No. 64 from No. 65, was an old
well, which in bygone times supplied the neighbouring
houses with water, but which had long been disused for that
purpose. When the wall was built, the well was not filled
up, but arched over, and left to itself. In process of time,
the drains of No. 64 (which also conveyed the drainage of a
house behind it, No. 12, Little Grosvenor Street,) became
dilapidated, and the sewage water filled up the old well.
Then, forasmuch as the basement of No. 65 had been
excavated to a lower level than that of its neighbours, it
became wet with the overflow of the well. A great deal of
time was expended in ascertaining all these facts; and in
bringing the several parties concerned to an arrangement for
filling up the old well, and putting a new pipe drainage to
No. 64 and to 12, Little Grosvenor Street.
Stafford Street, No. 5. This house, formerly without any
outlet for its sewage, except the earth, and the adjoining
wine-cellars, is now thoroughly drained; and the saturated
earth has been sweetened with quicklime.