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Nine cases in which cesspools or old drains were
abolished, and pipes substituted, viz.:—
Mount Row, No. 47.
Green Street, No. 26.
John Street, Berkeley Square, No. 13.
Castle Public House, Shepherd's Court, Brook Street.
Green Street, No. 33.
Mount Street, Nos. 49 and 50.
Maddox Street, Nos. 3 and 5.
Six cases of leakage through walls, viz.:—
Piccadilly, No. 127.
Griffin's Court, No. 6.
North Audley Street, No. 38.
The Baths, Davies Street.
Duke Street, No. 14.
Hertford Street, No. 37.
Be it observed that this, slight as it may seem, is a most
insidious and mischievous nuisance. There can be no
worse neighbour than a pipe or cistern, or other means of
holding or conveying water, close to the wall of your
house. The cistern decays, or a joint in the pipe leaks,
or perhaps the water-pipe permits an overflow, or the
ball-cock may be unable to shut off the water, or there may
be a fissure in the supply-pipe, from which a spray of water
no bigger than a hair issues every time the water comes
in. Then the old proverb comes into force—-gutta cavat
lapidem, &c. No noise is made, and there is nothing to
attract attention till a portion of wall is rendered hopelessly
damp, even if it does not become rotten and unsafe.
We have had cases of rheumatism, and other illness, from
this cause.
Seventeen other cases of miscellaneous nuisance
which have been rectified by the Inspector, viz:—