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and more or less cleansing effected, in consequence of fever or
small-pox, viz.:—No. 13, Robert Street; "Rose and Crown,"
Public House, Hart Street; 18, Queen Street; 5, May's
Buildings; 19 and 20, Brick Street; and 56, New Bond
Street. A maid servant went from this last house to the
Fever Hospital, and soon died; but no adequate cause of
illness was found in the house.
In the following cases, the drainage has been either made
new, or repaired under the direction of the Inspector.
North Row, No. 10. Here the Inspector found a cesspool,
bad drainage, no traps, and no cover to ashpit.
Swan Passage, No. 2.
G-eorge Street, Grosvenor Square, No 2.
Providence Court, No, 10.
Chapel Mews, Robert Street No. 7.
Park Lane, No. 26.
Little Grosvenor Mews No. 3.
In the following cases, kitchens have been shut up, because
contrary to the provisions of the Local Management
Act.
Robert Street, No. 21. The back kitchen inhabited by
man, wife, and three children, exposed to effluvia from rotten
drain, underneath. The owner lost a child by scarlet fever.
House dirty. The owner, a dealer in milk, said that it soon
became tainted, if exposed to the drain effluvia in his back
cellar, close to the kitchen aforesaid.
Robert Street, No. 22. Back kitchen dirty and dark,
inhabited, "during the season," by two charwomen; front
kitchen crowded; attics dirty; house made damp by leakage
from cistern next door; a dangerous place in the yard, where
children might break their legs.
Robert Street, No. 29. Basement offensive, house too
full; and ill-ventilated,; or rather impossible to be ventilated.