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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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Flask-row, Pimlico, No. 12. The nuisance here, caused
by lodgers, has been remedied.
Mr. Waiting's Slaughter-house has been cleansed.
Princes-row, West Pimlico, Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6. No
water to the closets. A notice was served on November
29th, and the water has been supplied.
Ditto, No. 7. House dirty throughout. A notice
was served on November 29th, and it has been cleansed.
Upper Tachbrook-street, No. 16. Complaint of effluvia
said to arise from a number of dogs kept in the yard,
which was inspected, but no nuisance could be detected.
Spring-garden-place, No. 14. The ceilings and walls
damp through the rain penetrating the roof. A notice
has been served, and the work finished.
"Miner's Arms" Beer Shop, Queen-street, Pimlico, No.
31. The corner has been fenced in.
Eccleston-itreet-east, No. 16a. The yard and watercloset
dirty, and effluvia from the drain in the yard, which
is partly uncovered. Remedied. <
Eaton-row-mews, No. 6. Infected with scarlet fever.
Effluvium arising from dung in Mr. Green's cow-yard,
which has been removed.
Houses Infected with Small-pox and
Scarlet Fevek.
The following houses, infected with small-pox, were
lime-washed and cleansed, excepting one at which a gully
was trapped:—Eccleston-place, No. 21, white-washed,
papered, and cleansed, and No. 22, cleansed; Royal-oahmews,
No. 2.
Most of the following houses infected with scarlet
fever, have been cleansed and lime-whited:—BoycCsgardens,
Nos. 3 and 11; Eliza-place, Elizabeth-street-south,