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back of the house into the old sewer, and was the channel
for foul gases. This was secured by a trap.
Lancashire Court has been thoroughly explored. Nos.
1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15, and 17, have been cleansed; a
kitchen at No. 8, in which a family of father, mother,
and eight children slept (including two boys of 16 and
18), has been thinned of its inhabitants; and No. 12 has
been reported to the police as dangerous, and has undergone
an amount of repair which will tend to sweeten it.
Hanover Street, Hanover Square, No. 18. The owner
complained of the amount of illness which infested his
family; his assistant was last year laid up for three
months with typhoid fever, and this year obliged to leave
in consequence of sore-throat; his predecessor in the business
always ill; his servants always ill; and every man in
his employ laid up at some time or other, with fever, sorethroat,
or rheumatism. Having directed Mr. Grant to
inspect these and the adjoining premises, I learn that at
complainant's own house is a common privy and cesspool,
dust-pit uncovered, and no drainage to the yard; at
No. 17, a common privy and lot of stinking rubbish; and
at No. 6, Maddox Street, in the rear, the same state of
things. All these nuisances are now abolished. Nos. 16
and 18 were till lately as bad, but are now well drained.
Drainage of Little Grosvenor Street. Nos. 3, 4, 5,
and 6, in this street, drained down the hill behind them,
through a stable and other premises belonging to Mrs.
Sparrow. That drain had become dilapidated and choked,
and Mrs. Sparrow desired that the owners of these houses
should make new drains separately to the front. It was
shown, however, that their drain backwards had existed
before her stables were built over it; moreover, that a
combined back drainage was the best in itself. The