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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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Eccleston-square, No. 10. A complaint of smoke discharged
from one of the chimnies belonging to Mr.
Trollope's manufactory. Information was given to the
police.
A Urinal in Kinnerton-street, behind No. 2, Wiltoncrescent,
by the side of the "Turk's Head" public
house, has been trapped, and water laid on.
Cowell and Sons' Slaughter House, Kinnerton-street,
has been paved and drained.
Park-side, Knightsbridge, Nos. 5 and 6. Complaint of
slops thrown into the gutter from the attic window of No.
7, adjoining premises, and sometimes stopping up the rainwater
pipe used jointly for the two houses. The gutters
were examined on July 12th, and found clean. The
Committee could not interfere.
Mr. Wise's Cow Yard, Elizabeth-street-south, and Mr.
Halts Cow Yard, Eccleston-street-east, have been limewashed
and cleansed.
Upper Belgrave-terrace, Pimlico, No. 1. The closet
and drains have been cleansed, and the skylight made to
open and shut.
Newman's Yard, behind Nos. 13 and 14, Brewer-street.
The drains have been cleansed, and the walls of Mr.
Hatt's cow-shed lime-washed.
Brewer-street, Pimlico, No. 17. A new rain-water
pipe communicating with the drain has been erected.
Westbourne-street, No. 94. A nuisance from an offensive
gutter has been remedied.
Upper Belgrave-terrace, Nos. 4 and 5, and Yard
behind. Common privies and cesspools. The work is in
progress.
Commercial-road-south, No. 3. Basement flooded with
sewage water; reported to the surveyor. The nuisance