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Upper Eaton Street, No. 30. The drains are obstructed,
and the offensive matter is oozing up through the gully in
the yard, and the smell is offensive.
The drains have been cleansed into the sewer, and the
nuisance abated.
Eaton Lane North, Nos. 20 and 21. The drains are
obstructed, and the offensive matter is rising up through the
gully in the back yard. The work is finished.
Waste Ground, Belgrave Road, between Charlwood Street
and Moreton Street, behind Tachbrook Street. A quantity of
decomposing refuse thrown over the walls from the houses in
Tachbrook Street. The refuse has been removed.
Upper Ebury Street, Nos. 37 and 38. No covers to the
ash-pits. Notices were served on January 12th, and the
dust-pits have been covered.
Minera Street, No. 1. Here there was no cover to the
ash-pit, and no water to the closet, which caused an offensive
smell. The water has been supplied to the closet, and the
ash-pit covered.
Berwick Street, Pimlico, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
The occupiers complained of bad smells, arising from common
privies and cesspools which belong to each house.
The cesspools were required to be emptied and filled up
privies panned, trapped, and water laid on properly; the old
brick drains through each house to be cleansed and repaired,
or broken up, and new 6-inch pipe drains laid down, and the
inlets trapped. A notice was served on January 22nd, and
the work is in progress.
The drains were choked, and a large cesspool was found
in the front area, into which offensive matter oozed through
the gully.
An old brick drain was broken up, a large cesspool in the