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Hanover Square 1859

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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room gave a cubic capacity of 163 cubic feet for each person.
The family have been removed, and the room cleansed.
Ditto, No. 5. The back bed-room was occupied by a
man, his wife, and four children, aged respectively, 11,9,
and 1 years, and gave a cubic capacity of 110 cubic feet
for each person. The family have been removed.
Ditto, No. 5. The front room was occupied by a
labourer, his wife, and four children, two daughters, aged
respectively 24 and 18, and two sons, 21 and 15 years old.
The cubic capacity gave only 190 cubic feet for each
person. Two of the family were removed.
Ditto, No. 6. Two bed-rooms have been cleansed.
Ditto, Nos. 1 to 12 have been either partially or entirely
cleansed.
Graham Street, Pimlico, No. 32. A cesspool in the
back yard, and the drains throughout, in a defective state.
The cesspool has been cleansed and filled up, a new watercloset
erected, and the premises properly drained by a
6-inch pipe drain into the sewer.
Grosvenor Row, Pimlico, Nos. 3 and 4. An old drain
under Nell Gwynn Cottages has been cleansed and broken
up, and two water-closets erected, with cisterns and pipe
drains laid down.
Chester Square, No. 62. A gully opposite to this
house has been cleansed.
Queen Street, Pimlico, Nos. 37 and 38, have been
drained into Princes Row.
Robert Street (right-hand side), Nos. 3 and 9. No
water supply to the closets, or covers to the dust bins.
The whole of the water butts required to be repaired,
cleansed, pitched, and newly covered. The work is
finished.
Eaton Lane North, No. 22a. The drains have been