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Officer of Health, who went accompanied by a policeman,
and, after great difficulty, obtained admission into the
room. He found the man lying on the floor delirious with
typhus fever. Wine and medicine were administered and
a nurse provided for the night, and Mr. Gray was asked to
resume his attendance. The patient recovered and has
returned to his employment.
Spark's Cottages, Graham-street, West, No. 1. The
two following cases are selected out of several instances
of scarlet fever, which occurred in the Belgrave SubDistrict.
Seven persons were found suffering from scarlet
fever in this house. There was no trap to the drain in
the wash house, and no ventilation under the floor of the
back bed room; the party wall was saturated with urine
by men employed in the adjoining saw mills. The drains
in the wash house have been trapped and the floors ventilated;
the wall has been cleansed, the saturated earth
removed, and lime thrown down. No. 2, also, underwent
the same sanitary improvement.
Hart's-buildings, Westbourne-street, No. 3. A death
from scarlet fever having occurred here, the Medical
Officer of Health and Inspector visited the spot and found
the corpse in a room over the closet, the effluvium from
which could enter it. At No. 1, in the same Buildings, the
staircase, wash house, and yard were dirty; no water to the
privy; paving in the yard out of repair, and no cover to
the water butt. At No. 2, the same nuisances existed.
No. 8 was dirty and dilapidated throughout, the paving in
the yard of the Buildings out of repair, there was neither
dust pit, nor cover to the water tank which joined the
privy. This was partly exposed to public view owing to
a deficiency in the wall, so that the whole place had
become exceedingly unwholesome and indecent. A notice
was served and the work is in progress.