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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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fever occurred: a person who entered on the stables as
lessee, dying in a fortnight. No adequate cause detected.
Weaver's Place, No. 3. Fever; house clean, but cannot
be ventilated.
Grosvenor Mews, No. 38. Fever; apartments cleansed.
Eaton Court, No. 5. Fever; the apartments cleansed.
Tom's Court, Nos. 2 and 3. Cleansed in consequence
of small-pox.
The other houses, in which cases of this last-named
disease occurred, were cleansed, but require no special
notice; as No. 6, Brown Street, No. 29, Grosvenor Mews,
No. 16, Davies Mews.
Jones'1 Place, Grosvenor Mews, No. 2. Here was a
death from diphtheria in the preceding quarter.
Robert Street, No. 24. The back kitchen inhabited,
dirty, and destitute of the legal qualifications for a residence.
It has been cleansed and disused as a dwelling.
South Molton Street, No. 39. A closet without water,
and drains untrapped.
Mount Row, No. 2. This house was perfectly drained,
but received effluvia from an old disused brick drain in
No. 1. This has been broken up and done away with.
Ducking-Pond Mews, No. 3. A stable utterly without
drainage of any sort. Has been properly drained under
the superintendence of the Inspector.
Davies Street, Nos. 53, 54, and 55. These three houses
drain by one outlet into Brook's Mews, which having become
dilapidated has been repaired.
Lancashire Court, Nos. 1, 2, and 3, have been often
inspected, and No. 8, partially cleansed in consequence of
small-pox. This court is worse rather than better.
Tenterden Street, No. 2. An obscure case of dampness.