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very many cases besides his :—" If you don't want air to
come in from an offensive quarter, take care to let in
plenty of it from a pure source."
Street s-buildings, No, 1. A nuisance removed.
Drainage Cases. Barlow-mews, Bruton-street, has been
very extensively drained. Complaint was made that
apartments occupied by a laundress, who employed 16
women, were without drainage of any sort; so were
several inhabited stables. The result has been that 11
stables have been completely drained, for man and horse,
and 5 new water-closets erected, at a very great cost, but
with the entire good will of the owner, who admits the
necessity of the measures.
Thomas-street, No. 2. Here the drains were choked
and offensive.
Mill-street, No. 8. Basement flooded with sewage, in
consequence of a choking of drains which pass through
contiguous houses into Conduit-street.
Union-street, No. 10. Here pipes have been substituted
for the old brick drains, after complaint.
Robert-street, No. 11. Defective drainage and water
supply.
Thomas-street, No. 43. An inhabited stable without
drainage.
George-street, Honover-square, Nos. 4 and 5. A huge
cesspool belonging to these two houses conjointly, projected,
with 2 old-fashioned latrines, into Mr. Evans's yard, No. 34,
New Bond-street. He offered to crcct a new water-closet
for each house, if allowed to abolish these old nuisances.
This has been done, and an incredible quantity of human
excrement (10 cartloads), which had been stored up there
for generations, has been removed.