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Crescent. The drains are stopped up; there is no water
to the closet. A notice was served on March 10. The
drains have been cleansed and repaired, and water laid on
to the closet.
Back of Chester Terrace, Chester Square. A large
quantity of dung has been removed.
St. George's Row, No. 28. Infected with small-pox.
Susannah Place, Little Ebury Street, Nos. 1, 2, and 3.
Dirty throughout, water-butts dirty, and several of the
inlets to the drains are untrapped. Each house has been
properly limewashed, and the water-butts cleansed,
Eccleston Place, No. 11. Infected with small-pox,
and the house dirty. A notice was served on March 31,
and the house is now being cleansed.
Robert Street (left-hand side), No. 5. Infected with
chicken-pox, small-pox, and the front parlour overcrowded.
Dr. Aldis visited this house on Saturday, March 10, and
found a case of chicken-pox in the back room. He went
there again on the following Monday night, and found an
infant suffering from small-pox, in the front room, which
was occupied by a man, his wife, and seven children,
together with a nurse-child, which had been sent there at
4s. a-week, for the benefit of the occupier. A person
having been heard to groan in the upper back room, he
inspected it, and saw a man exceedingly ill, covered with
an eruption of small-pox, and blisters on his fingers produced
by his falling into the fire. There certainly was a
bedstead, but only a blanket to cover himself, mother,
and brother. He had not received any medical attendance.
A note was immediately forwarded to the workhouse,
requesting a conveyance to be sent, that the sick
man might be taken to Mount Street. The application
was promptly attended to; and although late, the man was