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Kinnerton-street, No. 34. Infected with small-pox.
The patient, a married female, had been vaccinated, and
had nursed the person who resided in the mews previously
mentioned. Dr. Aldis wished her to be removed; but
she refused to go, and another female has since been
attacked with the same complaint. A part of the house
was limewashed.
Dung has been removed from May's-yard, Wiltonroad;
Warwick-place, Nos. 2, 9, 10, 1, 4, 6; Messrs. Watling
and Sons' Slaughter-house, Charlotte-street; Ehury-mews;
Girdler's-mews, Ebury-square; Francis' s-yard; Ranelagh-cottages;
Commercial-road; and Nell Gwynne-cottages, Grosvenorrow,
Pimlico.
Impure Gas.
Dr. Aldis deemed it important to call the attention of
the Nuisances Removal Committee, to the very impure
state of the cannel gas supplied by the London Company,
to the rooms in Ebury-mews. It became not only deficient
in illuminating power, but so loaded with sulphuretted
hydrogen, that lead test-paper was completely
blackened when applied to the burners, and offensive
effuvia, like those from sewers, pervaded different houses.
He visited the Company's Works at Vauxhall, where
the gas from the wet lime purifier was equally impure,
but the common gas presented no traces of sulphuretted
hydrogen. The subject having been referred to the Yestry,
Mr. Watson, the Engineer of the Company, admitted
in a letter that the impurity was caused by the severe
weather, the outlet or discharge pipes of the purifier
being stopped. The result of the sulphur determinations
will be found in the Appendix.