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The same house was also subject to a very serious
leakage of water from Weippert's Rooms, No. 11, Daviesstreet,
which was investigated, and remedied.
Maddox-street, No. 35. Here Mr. Grant found, and
caused to be abolished, a cesspool and set of old rotten
brick drains, and new pipes to be laid down. The occupier
confessed, with grief, to the Medical Officer of Health
that the house had long been in a poisonous state, and
that if these alterations had been effected before, the lives
of two of his children, who died here of diphtheria, might
have been spared, and he might have been saved the loss
and suffering arising from an attack of the same disease.
Mount-street, No. 96. Here a child died of diphtheria
a few days after returning in perfect health from the
country. Mr. Grant found an untrapped sink covered
with rubbish in the kitchen, in which the child passed
most of his time, besides a dilapidated privy in the basement,
yielding most offensive effluvia.
Clarges-street, No. 43. A servant went from this
house to St. George's Hospital, and ascribed his illness to
sleeping in an underground room, filled with drain stench,
and infested with rats. The drainage has been remedied,
and completely reset with 6-inch pipes.
Inspections were made, and necessary cleansing effected,
at No. 18, Grosvenor-market, No. 9, Queen-street,
No. 8, Woodstock-street, No. 3, Union-street, No. 83,
Park-street, No. 3, Eaton-place, North-row, No. 1,
Bolton-yard, Nos. 10 and 26, Robert-street, and Nos. 6
and 9, Lancashire-court, in consequence of scarlatina.