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Eaton-cottages, Westbourne-street, Nos. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Dirty throughout. Notices were served on May 27th,
and the several rooms, with staircases, yards, and washhouses,
have been whitewashed and cleansed. A boy, aged
9, died from scarlatinal diphtheria, at No. 6, where Dr.
Aldis had previously attended a case of fever, when he
complained of the dirty state of the rooms. The deceased
lived in a room with the father, mother, four brothers
and sisters, and a nurse child. The clothes of one of them
took fire, and it died in St. George's Hospital from the
effects. Two others were attacked with scarlet fever, and
recovered.
Little Ebury-street, Ebury-square, No. 8. A marine
store-dealer's. Shop dirty.
Hugh-street West, No. 5. Complaint of a dead body
being locked up in the back room of the second floor.
The house was visited, but no effluvia could be detected.
Directions were given to make application to a solicitor
respecting the key and for the body to be buried.
Lyall-mews, at rear of No. 55, Eaton-place. No watercloset.
The stable is not to be let in future.
Leakages.
Cambridge-street, Pimlico, No. 84. Leakage of water
into the kitchen caused by the defective condition of the
boiler at No. 86, which has been repaired and the nuisance
abated.
Bridge-row, Pimlico, No. 19. The back wall saturated
with water from a cistern in the yard of No. 18. A notice
was served on April 23rd, and the cistern has been
repaired.