Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Tachbrook Street, Pimlico, No. 1. An offensive gully
opposite to this house has been trapped.
Waste piece of ground adjoining Bedford Place, Vauxhall
Bridge Road. Several dead cats in a state of decomposition
were removed, and the nuisance abated.
Two dung-pits at the corner of Eaton Lane South,
belonging to Nos. 1 and 2, Lower Eaton Street. That at
No. 1, has been filled up and paved over, and the other at
No. 2, has been cleansed.
Kemp's Row, Pimlico, No. 1. Nuisance arising from a
marine store dealer's, No. 14, Avery Farm Row, adjoining
premises. The shop has been cleansed, the vaults limewhited,
and the bones in the cellar ordered to be placed in
sacks for the future.
Upper Denbigh Mews. A large quantity of dung has
been removed from the premises.
Victoria Street, Pimlico, No. 19. Offensive effluvia
entering the windows from the butcher's adjoining premises.
A similar nuisance, which caused a second complaint,
was abated.
May's Yard, Wilton Road, Pimlico. A large quantity
of dung has been removed.
Offensive gullies opposite to No. 33a, Charlwood
Street, and 3 and 4, Gloucester Terrace, Pimlico, have
been remedied.
Ebury Place, Ebury Square, No. 6. An offensive
closet has been removed.
Upper Ranelagh Street, No. 3. A cesspool has been
cleansed and filled up, a new water-closet erected, and the
premises properly drained by six-inch pipe drains into the
sewer, and the inlets trapped.
Infants' Nursery, Ranelagh Cottages, Lower Ranelagh