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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that, although unwilling to cause it to be removed, he
directed the top to be completely covered.
Grrosvenor-row, Pimlico, No. 49. A new water-closet
and dust-pit have been erected, a new water butt has
been pitched and covered, the paving repaired, and the
gully trapped.
Upper Ebury-street, Pimlico, No. 50. Infected with
small-pox. The drains here have been cleansed and repaired.
Drainage Cases, &c.
Eccleston-place, Nos. 8 and 14. The drains have been
attended to, and the rooms limewashed and papered.
The drains have been cleansed at Queen-street, Pimlico,
No. 40; Eccleston-place, Nos. 53 and 54; BoycTs-gardens,
No. 9 ; and Roberfs-buildings, Ebury-square, No. 8a.
St. George's-place, Ebury-bridge, No. 6. Effluvia from
neglected traps. Remedied.
Cambridge-street, Pimlico, No. 95. Effluvia from
neglect of one of the closets and sink trap. Remedied.
The following were cases in which the Inspector could
not interfere:—
Ranelagh-street, No. 8. The complaint here was of stone
masons' hammering during the day. At Mr. Croft's,
Pork Butcher, Knightsbridge-terrace, that of a nuisance
caused by the noise of a sausage-making machine,
erected at the rear of complainant's yard. At Cumberlandstreet,
No. 73, annoyance caused by the playing of an
organ next door. And at Warwick-street, Pimlico, No. 78,
a nuisance arising from smoke.