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the Ranelagh sewer is half full; the only remedy for which
would be to lower the sewer about 4 feet, although it would
still remain a shallow sewer, for the crown would then be
1 foot above the owner's basement.
Waste Ground near No. 23, Sussex Street, Pimlico, and
Mews behind 16 and 17, Lower Belgrave Place. A large
quantity of rubbish, mixed with decomposed vegetable matter,
has been removed from these places.
Eccleston Terrace, No. 2, South. An offensive gully
opposite to this house was reported to the Surveyor.
Park Side, No 7, Knightsbridge. Slops emptied into the
gullies of this house by the lodgers at No. 7, who were
cautioned against a repetition of the nuisance in future.
Belgrave Stables, Halkin Street, West. These stables
contain 42 horses, and the drainage is in a defective condition,
with a cesspool in nearly every stall, and a large
cesspool which receives the drainage of a water closet and
waste water of the yard; the nuisance is caused when the
contents of the cesspools are being "ladled" on to the
dung pit about once a week. A notice was served on
June 7, and the work has been commenced.
These stables are behind the north side of Lowndes Street,
where the complainant purchased a house, thinking that in
such a fashionable locality, as one of the best streets in Belgravia,
he would be safe from any nuisance, but a high wall
in the rear, instead of concealing, to a certain extent, the
premises belonging to 6ome manufacturer of innocuous articles,
as he supposed, actually hid the abominable nuisance
just described.
Upper Tachbrook Street. The basements of Nos. 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, contained from 6 to 9 inches
of water.
Tachbrook Street. Nos. 37, 39 and 115, contain about