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of this kind, one of us entered a room at No. 5, Thomasstreet,
Grosvenor-square, and discovered a coffin containing
the body of a child who had died of some affection of
the throat, another child in bed with the same complaint,
two other children in the room, and two tailors at work
on the floor;—the room and all its contents being in a
most astonishing state of filth and stench, and the father
of the family refusing to open the window, lest the fresh
air should hasten decomposition of the corpse. The
owner of the house said that they earned good wages,
but preferred dirt to cleanliness, and that he could not
get rid of them. Accordingly, in order to get rid of
so dangerous a nuisance, an order was served requiring
the owner to remove the dead body, and cleanse the
apartment, and not use it for habitation till it had been
so cleansed. This was on Saturday the 8th, and the
room was empty and in the process of cleansing on
Tuesday the 11th October.
New Grosvenor-place, Pimlico. No less than eighteen
houses have undergone sanitary improvement in this place
in reference to trapping sinks, whitewashing and cleansing
rooms, &c., the repairing of roofs, the erection of and
covering of dust pits, the cleansing and erection of water
butts, the repairing of drains, pavement, and supply-pipes
to closets.
APPENDIX. No. III.
slaughterhouses and cowhouses.
We conjointly examined the thirty-seven premises,
respecting which notices had been given of application
for licenses for slaughtering. We found that they were