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drained by six-inch pipe drains, the inlets trapped, the
paving repaired, and the walls whitewashed.
Eaton-place, No. 36. While passing here on Sunday
October 7th, Dr. Aldis detected a strong smell of gas
which was escaping to a dangerous extent from the cellars;
he informed a servant of the circumstance, who said that
the nuisance had been perceptible for two or three days,
and had filled the house. The Inspector of the Company
was applied to, who examined the premises the same
evening, and found that a workman, who had been repairing
a street-lamp, had broken a pipe half way down
the lamp-post, and, instead of closing the aperture, had
merely stopped up the upper part of the lamp-post, so
that the gas escaped freely into the cellars and the house.
This valuable house must have been destroyed if a lighted
candle had been taken into the cellars, or if a lighted
match had accidentally fallen through the perforated iron
plates covering the coal-holes. The workman was immediately
suspended.
Gloucester-terrace, St. George's-road, Pimlico, No. 26.
An obstructed closet, which has been remedied.
Leakages, &c.
Brewer-street, Pimlico, No. 1. Leakage of water into
the shop, caused by the defective condition of the watercloset
and cistern in the yard of No. 2, which have been
repaired.
Park-side, Knightsbridge, No. 21. Leakage of water
into the basement from the ground floor, caused by the
boiler overflowing, which has been rectified.
Belgrave-terrace-mews, Pimlico, No. 1. Leakage of