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Hanover Square 1861

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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Waste Ground at the rear of Warwick-place, in Warwick-square.
Six dead cats, lying in a decomposed state,
have been removed.
Waste Ground in front of the Railway Station in the
Wilton-road. A common privy, with a cesspool under it,
for the use of the workmen, and a cart-load of dung.
The cesspool has been emptied and filled up; the privy
and dung were removed.
Flask-lane, No. 5. An obstructed closet has been
remedied.
Eccleston-place, No. 22. The water-closet has been
whitewashed and cleansed.
Eccleston-place, No. 9, has undergone thorough repair.
St. George' s-row, No. 24. The closet has been cleansed,
and water supplied.
Commercial-road, No. 24. Nuisance caused by lodgers
emptying slops down the gully opposite. The inmates
have been cautioned against repeating the offence.
Little Chester-street, Belgrave-square, Nos. 5, 7, 8, and
9. Defective ventilation in the back rooms of the second
floor, in which there are no windows or fire places, the
only ventilation coming through the skylight in the roof.
A notice was served on January 25th, and the rooms
have been ventilated.
Leakages.
Bridge row, Pimlico, No. 12. Leakage of water into
the cottage in the yard, caused by the defective condition
of the gutters and roof of an old dilapidated house, which
has been pulled down, and the nuisance abated.
Grosvenor-place, No. 4. Leakage of water into the
kitchen from the boiler and pipes of No. 3. The boiler
and pipes have been repaired.