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of illness in these very large and densely-peopled houses.
At No. 5 there was a case of fever in a room crowded by
persons not well off; patient sent to St. George's Hospital.
A notice was served, on October 24, requiring it to be
cleansed in ten days. At No. 7 some of the rooms were
also required to be cleansed. At No. 8, on the first floor
front, lived a man, wife, grown-up daughter, and 4 other
children; two of them had been sent to St. George's Hospital
with fever. In the second floor of the same house
cases of small-pox had occurred last quarter. A notice was
served, requiring such parts of the house as had not been
done lately to be cleansed; this was disregarded: a summons
was taken out, heard December 9th ; defendant did not
appear. A fresh summons was taken out for the 11th;
defendant then appeared, and on her promise to do what was
wanted, the magistrate adjourned it till the 18th, when the
work was reported finished, and costs paid.
Nos. 2 and 3, Avery-terrace, Brook-street. There was
complaint of grievous nuisance affecting an underground
room at No. 3, used as the day residence of six or seven
sickly children of a tailor. Nuisance reported on by Mr.
Grant, who believes it to arise from the next house, No. 2.
Here there lives an insolvent tradesman, whose goods have
been seized for rent, and the water cut off for non-payment
of rates. It was really a spectacle to see the miserable
bundles used as bedding by his respectable looking wife and
children. The " owner," i.e., the occupier of No. 2, was summoned
because his house was not fit for human habitation,
there being no water supply to an internal closet. Summons
heard December 23; adjourned till January 4th, 1864,
again to 18th, when water was reported by Mr. Grant
to have been laid on, and costs paid.
A very large amount of business was done by the