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APPENDIX No. III.
special cases, and notes on the foregoing tables.
1. The cases of cesspools were in first-class houses;
four, with a whole set of rotten brick drains, were extirpated
from a house in Berkeley-square; another from South-street.
2. Seven bull-dogs removed from 11, Lancashire-court;
pigs from 14, Ebury-square. Pigs are complained of in
Chelsea parish adjoining Belgravia.
3. One of the smoke nuisances was caused by burning
offensive breeze from a gas factory, in the furnace of a
dyer's factory in Davies-street.
4. In one house that was cleansed, and that needed it
badly enough, no fewer than 10 old coatings of paper were
stripped off the walls of some rooms. In every case we have
the greatest difficulty in persuading house-owners to get rid
of old paper, mischievous as it is in harbouring vermin and
effluvia.
5. Messrs. Jay's Factory, in Verey's-yard, Princes-street.
A complaint was forwarded through a physician of the
unwholesome state of this factory, and it was visited. It is
a large building about 32 feet broad, 70 long, and the walls
18 feet high, with an open roof above. It is warmed by an
iron stove ; and has, at one end, certain parts partitioned off,
for store rooms, water-closets, &c. The largest number of
young women who work in this place is 84, so that there is
no deficiency of space or ventilation; but there were complaints
of drain effluvia, which were traced to defective
water-closets and drains, and short supply of water. These
evils were remedied by the proprietors, after reiterated visits
and expostulations, followed by threat of legal proceedings.
6. Chemist's Laboratory,Old Barrack Yard.—A memorial,
dated June 28th, 1864, was forwarded to the Medical Officer
of Health, complaining of the effluvia and smoke arising