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Oxford Street, No. 253. Poisoned by escape of sewer
gases from a pipe at No. 253a.
George Street, No. 5. A cesspool in blacksmith's
factory.
Chapel Mews, Robert Street, No. 6. The same.
Old Bond Street, No. 3. No closets for 120 workmen.
Grafton Street, No. 20.
Little Stanhope Street, No. 8.
Clarges Street, No. 8.
White Bear, Park Street.
Hamilton Place, Piccadilly, No. 7.
Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, No. 10. Houses
rendered unwholesome by defects in drainage, and rectified
by the Inspector.
Hart Street, No. 12. Very dirty. Three persons
died of various diseases in this house in one week.
Shepherd's Market, Nos. 2, 3, 4. Annoyed by street
gully.
Ditto, No. 17. A butcher accused of keeping putrid
meat. In reality, a cesspool within his unventilable
house.
So much for cases in the Hanover and May Fair districts.
Now follow those in Belgravia.
In the Belgrave Sub-district, several complaints were
brought against Marine store dealers, whose premises require
constant supervision. Slaughter-houses and butchers'
premises, owing to the state of the weather, and the
rapidity with which decomposition took place in meat,
contributed so much to annoy several persons, as to cause
more inspections than usual. One of the former required
frequent visits, in consequence of its being a public
slaughter-house. Besides the owner, who killed a great
number of pigs, four or five butchers also destroyed