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local authority, therefore, decided that this drain should
be restored.
Pitt's Head Mews, No. 11. Here a cross complaint
was brought for the "local authority to settle. The
occupiers of this inhabited stable complained that it was
made unwholesome by ovens and cooking apparatus at
No. 11, Little Stanhope Place, the occupier of which
latter house complained (with more reason) of nuisance
from the stables.
King's Mews, South Street, No. 21. Complaint was
made that a dead body had been kept here too long.
The complaint was ill-founded, but the stable was dirty
and ordered to be cleansed.
Robert Street, No. 3. A back kitchen, inhabited by a
man, wife, and two children, with no ventilation, except
through an area covered in and used as a washhouse.
The lessee of this very dirty house, doubtless, could not
afford, as she said, to keep it in good condition and live
by it too; neither could she control dirty and disorderly
tenants. The house, however, has been cleansed, and the
kitchen disused.
SteePs Court, Lee's Mews. This is one of the first places
visited by the cholera in 1849, and no wonder, for the
offensive water-closets were close to the windows. Nos.
2, 3, and 4, have been cleansed, and the closets repaired.
Wood's Mews, No. 28. This stable was like many
other premises, supposed to be drained, till the pump
brought up sewage instead of drinking water, and then
a large cesspool was discovered, which has since been
abolished.
Not to take up too much time with details, when no
principle is involved, we may classify the following cases,
thus:—