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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hanover Square 1866
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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| Drains in stable-yard cleansed | 1 |
| Traps supplied | 2 |
| Leakages remedied | 5 |
| Cesspool abolished | 1 |
| Gas pipes repaired | 1 |
| Water laid on | 2 |
| Yards cleansed | 3 |
| Stables newly drained by pipes | 1 |
| Gullies cleansed and repaired | 1 |
| Stable yard cleansed and re-paved. | 1 |
| Dung nuisance abated | 12 |
| Rubbish removed | 5 |
| Dead body removed | 1 |
| Complaint frivolous | 1 |
| Summons | 2 |
| Magistrates' order granted | |
| Notices served | 24 |
| Summonses ordered to be taken out, but refused by the magistrate | 2 |
APPENDIX. No. III.
special cases.
Two Houses in Grosvenor-street.—In the Quarterly Summary,
No. XXX., was mentioned the case of two contiguous
houses, each formerly infested with smells through neglect in
the construction of the drains, which had been in great
measure remedied. Each house contains a central watercloset
on the second floor, drained by a pipe running down
in the substance of the party-wall. Last year, the occupant
of No. x made fresh complaint of effluvia in his drawingroom,
which he believed to enter it at the place where the
water-closet pipe of No. y runs down imbedded in the wall.