View report page

8
the pressure within; but when the operation is finished
the steam is let off with an explosion, which may be
very alarming, and with an escape of sulphureous vapour
which is certainly abominably sickening. It appeared
therefore that neighbours might reasonably complain of
such processes carried on in the area of a house in a
London street; and the dentist was requested to take
means for preventing the escape of the pernicious vapour,
and was instructed in the best process for so doing.
There was a repetition of the nuisance, whereupon by
direction of the Committee, a letter was written threatening
legal proceedings; since which there has been no complaint.
Nuisance at Nos. 2 and 3, Hertford-street, May-fair.
It will be gathered from former reports, that several
investigations were made of a nuisance complained of
at No. 2, Hertford-street, May-fair, which was alleged
to be caused by a slaughter-house in the rear. It has
been discovered however that an enormous cesspool,
9 ft. deep and 6 ft. wide, charged full of soil, existed
between Nos. 3 and 4, into which the drains of those
houses emptied themselves, with an overflow drain through
a stable, No. 2, Ducking-pond-mews. A rain-water pipe
leading into this cesspool from the back of the house
brought up the effluvia complained of at No. 2. The
cesspool has now been abolished, and pipes laid down. It
is well to put on record that there was a severe case of
cholera at No. 3 in 1854.
Putrid Fat. Proceedings were taken before Mr.
Arnold at the Westminster Police Court, in consequence
of a quantity of fat which was deposited in the highway
of Chapel-place, Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, by
a man who wished to sell it to a marine store dealer.
But the dealer refused to take it into his house, believing