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ought to be noticed that protracted and repeated attendances
at police-courts. with such results, are discouraging to the
Sanitary Committee and to the sanitary officers of the
Vestry.
Dungpit in Little Brown-street.—This is another case
in which legal proceedings failed through the insolvency of
the defendant and the uncertainty who was the real person
responsible. This dungpit was in the occupancy of a
" Limited" Brewery Company, whose offices were closed.
It was left full of offensive matter. It was reported to the
Sanitary Committee at their meeting in July; a summons
taken out and heard on the 15th August; the magistrate
made an order requiring the owner to cleanse and disinfect;
but how to serve a notice on a dungpit ? so, after waiting
some days yet, it was cleansed out and disinfected by Mr.
Grant's directions at the parish expense.—See Quarterly
Return, No. XXV.
Drainage of Swallow-place.—This was inquired into by
the Medical Officer of Health, in consequence of a death
from dysentery in July. Soon afterwards a complaint was
lodged against the drainage and cleanliness of No. 4. A
notice which was served was disregarded, so that a summons
was taken out, which came on for hearing on August 15th;
but, as the defendant did not appear, the case was adjourned
till the 22nd, by which time the old rotten brick drains
had been replaced by pipes, the old privy abolished, a new
water-closet erected, and the whole premises cleansed and
sweetened.
Drainage of Mount-row.—This row of nine houses has
always been infested with fever and diarrhoea in a greater
degree than could be accounted for. Several explorations
had been made of the drainage; but at last, on a stoppage
occurring at No. 5, Carpenter-street, Mr. Grant found
that Nos. 4, 5, and 6, Mount-row, with the Oliver's Mount