Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Grosvenor-mews, No. 10. Ditto two top back rooms.
North-row, No. 36. Ditto five rooms, wash-house,
staircase, and water-closet.
North-row, No. 29. Ditto several rooms.
Thomas-street, No. 5. Ditto upper room, left side.
Dolphin-court, Oxford-street, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Ditto.
Hanover-place, Nos. 6 and 13. Ditto top rooms.
Dung Nuisances.
Ducking-pond-mews. Five large heaps of dung reported.
Swan-passage-stables, Mount-street. Large heap of offensive
dung, decomposing vegetable-matter, and water.
Lambeth-mews. Dung pit at rear of No. 9, Queenstreet.
Horse-shoe-yard, at rear of No. 58, Brook-street.
Yard in rear of No. 297, Oxford-street.
Urinal by "Duke of York" Public House, Union-street.
Offensive.
Pollen-street, No. 13. Complaint by some of the occupiers
against a marine store dealer, who had a collection
of putrid bones on the floor.
Complaints Unavailing.
Robert-street, No. 14. Kitchen said to be offensive.
Maddox-street, No. 23. Death from fever. No cause
discoverable in the house, which was lately well drained
by pipes. Patient from country.
Street's-buildings, No. 1. A room inhabited by an old
couple, the wife paralytic. The room is clean; and the
offensiveness proceeds from neglect in opening the
windows.