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10
Frivolous complaints 4
Dung removed, dung-pits cleansed 9
Offensive fat thrown down in the streets 1
Kitchen disused as a dwelling 2
Water-butts covered 1
Smell of fires from foundry complained of 1
Water impregnated with gas 1
Dogs removed 1
Dirty bedding removed and burned 2
Number of Notices served 41
Summonses 3
Special meetings of Committee 2
Amongst the most noteworthy items in the foregoing
list may be mentioned the improved drainage of Mountrow
and Carpenter-place. This set of house has heretofore
been exceedingly unhealthy at times, and various
improvements have been made; now, we believe, a great
step has been made, in the substitution of pipes for old
brick drains and cesspools. There was a huge cesspool
under the very floor of a house which is occupied as a
kind of mission-house, for the benefit of the working
classes.
A dispute has been investigated by the Committee
between the owners of adjacent houses in Portugal-street
and Mount-street. A case of nuisance was established;
but it was so intermixed with questions of private right—
for example, the right to have a window opening into a
neighbour's yard—that the Committee counselled a private
arrangement between the parties concerned. This
was effected with very great pains; but was afterwards
set aside, and when last heard of the parties were engaged
in a law-suit.