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Hanover Square 1860

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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Thomas-street, Nos. 12, 13, 31, and 43. The former
two stables without drainage, the latter two with defective
drainage. A new pipe sewer has been laid down in the
street at the expense of the occupiers, and three of the
stables perfectly connected therewith. No. 13 allowed
to stand over for the present.
Tenterden-street, No. 2. Water leaking through a
wall from defective drainage of adjoining premises.
Park-street, No. 107. Wall of cellars undermined by
rats; consequent current of foul air from street sewer,
and leakage of water from defective drains of No. 37,
Upper Grosvenor-street, adjoining.
"Three Horse Shoes" Public House, Gilbert-street, No.
19. Most offensive and dilapidated drainage.
Bolton-row, No. 11. An old cesspool in the kitchen,
and a set of dilapidated brick drains leading from No. 23,
Bolton-street, abolished, and pipes laid down.
South Bruton-mews, No. 5. Stables dirty and undrained;
whitewashed and drained by pipes.
Robert-street, Nos. 21 and 22. In each house an offensive
and dilapidated water-closet; new one erected.
Lancashire-court, No. 3. This case brought before
the magistrate at Marlborough-street, for general dirt and
dilapidated drainage, which the owner, after adjournment,
remedied.
Park-street, No. 89. Cesspool abolished; pipes laid
down.
The above cases are particularly specified, because
important works were executed, at very considerable
expense to the owners. In the following cases, lesser
drainage grievances have been investigated and remedied.
Hanover-square, No. 17.
Oxford-street, No. 271.