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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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York-place, Vauxhall-bridge-road, No. 3; Wallis' s-yard, No.
16 ; Whitaker-street, Pimlico, No. 6 ; Lower Belgraveplace,
No. 40; all of which were found generally clean,
excepting the last house, which is undergoing thorough
repair.
Eccleston-place, No. 54. Infected with scarlet fever.
The effluvia in this house is most offensive. The drainage
of Nos. 53 and 55 passes through it. A notice was served
on March 19th, and the drains have been repaired.
Eccleston-place, No. 8. Infected with scarlet fever. A
new dust pit has been erected.
Gloucester-street, No. 6. Infected with scarlet fever.
The drains were broken up, and new pipe-drains laid
down.
Robert-street, No. 3, South-side, Commercial-road. Infected
with scarlet fever. The room occupied by a
man, his wife, and seven children, was whitewashed and
cleansed, and the overcrowding has been abated.
Eccleston-place, No. 8. Infected with scarlet fever.
Dust and vegetable matter thrown on a level with the
staircase landing, and no proper ash-pit. The house has
been cleansed, and the nuisance abated.
Little Chester-street, No. 3. Infected with scarlet fever.
Ventilation insufficient in the back bed room, where four
children slept. A notice was served on January 24th.
The ventilation has been improved, and the rooms, with
the staircase, have been whitewashed and cleansed.
St. George's-row, No, 26. Infected with scarlet fever.
This house was shut up.
Duplex-ride, No. 3. Infected with fever. A dung
heap with garbage from a slaughter-house was removed.
Eaton-mews South, No. 26a. Infected with small-pox.
The patient, a married female, had been vaccinated. The
premises were clean,