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APPENDIX. No. IE.
special cases.
Absence of Drainage.—The following may serve as an
example of a state of things which possibly may be found
existing still in some of the older houses in the Parish,
especially those inhabited by the better classes, and not
subjected to exploration and inspection, as they would be if
their inhabitants sought relief from the Parish or Dispensary.
Of two contiguous houses in a good street, the drainage of
one had been obstructed for years, and all the liquid sewage
filtered away through the party-wall and basement to the
drains of the other.
Rice's Stables, Piccadilly.—These are, so far as we know,
the only undrained stables of the sort remaining. A complaint
was made that the basement walls of No. 114, Piccadilly,
were made damp by leakage from the drains of these
stables. A dry area was consequently constructed within