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No. 37, Queen-street, Pimlico, was found to be infected with
scarlet fever and overcrowded, the front kitchen being occupied
by a man, his wife, and four children, and the front
attic by a family of seven in number, with other lodgers in
the house. The evil was remedied.
Overcrowding was also abated at No. 7, Bridge-row, and
at No. 6, Little Ebury-street, in both of which small-pox
and other diseases had existed.
No. 47, St. George's-place, Pimlico.—This was a case of
combined drainage. The main drain in the back area became
obstructed at No. 48. A brick drain passes from No. 45,
behind Nos. 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, and 52, into the sewer
in William-street, and was completely full in the back areas
of Nos. 47 and 48, where it has been opened. It appeared
that only three houses, namely, Nos. 45, 47, and 48, had an
outlet into this old drain, and that Nos. 46, 49, 50, 51, and
52, drain out by pipe-drains into the sewer in Knightsbridge.
Nos. 47 and 48 have been properly drained by pipe-drains
throughout into the sewer in front, and the old drain behind
the premises has been broken up, and the drains of No. 45
have been connected with those of No. 46, and with the
sewer.
No. 12, Commercial-road, South.—This was another case
of combined drainage with that of No. 11, an obstruction in
which caused a very great nuisance; it was remedied.
Nos. 20 and 21, Pembroke-place, Vauxhall-bridge-road.—
This also was a case of combined drainage, and two full cesspools
were in the yard of No. 20, one of which was fourteen
feet deep and six wide. The old brick drains have been
broken up, the cesspools filled up, and a new six-inch pipedrain
laid down.
The law permits the use of combined drainage, which is
obviously the source of frequent and dangerous nuisances