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dust, used to caseharden steel. On paying a visit, and
witnessing the process, some grounds were found to exist
for the complaint; but measures were pointed out by
which any future annoyance to the neighbours might be
avoided.
Gas Nuisance in Bolton-street. Owing to a defect in
the main, the inhabitants were exposed to the escape of
gas into their kitchens, and to the almost equal nuisance
of incessant fruitless digging up the street for repairs.
An application was made to the Chartered Company, who
at once put down a new main.
Great escape of gas into No. 9, Providence Court.
Remedied.
Inspections in consequence of Disease.
Brown-street, No. 9. A youDg woman was admitted
into the sick wards of the workhouse for fever from this
house, where she lived in the same room with a man, his
wife, and four children. She lived there by consent of
the wife, to take charge of the children during her absence
at an hospital. A very small room in the same house was
occupied by an Irishwoman, with son of 13, daughter of
18, and young woman lodger. This overcrowding was
abated, and the house cleansed.
Brook-street, No. . Is the residence of a physician,
whose children were ill with diphtheria. A letter was
sent to him by the Medical Officers of Health, suggesting
that there might be causes of the disease in the drainage.
The reply was, that the house was abominably offensive.
Mr. Grant inspected it, and caused a set of old rotten
brick drains to be explored and removed; pipes were laid
down, and the house made wholesome.