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Little Boar's Head Yard was incorporated with Boar's
Head Yard, Brewer's Row with Brewer's Green Mews,
Dartmouth Row with Lewisham Street, Lack's Cottages
'
with Douglas Place, and Devon Place with Grosvenor
Street.
Streets in which houses were re-numbered:—
Arneway Street.
Bucking-ham Mews.
Chapel Place, two houses in.
King Street.
Delahay Mews.
King's Head Court.
Laundry Yard.
Queen Square Mews.
Strutton Ground.
Victoria Street.
Great Peter Street.
Grosvenor Street.
Millbank Street.
St. Ann Street.
Great Smith Street.
Edward Street.
Brewer's Green Mews.
Lewisham Street.
Francis Street.
Unhealthy
Areas.
SANITARY MEASURES.
The Medical Officer reported upon the sanitary
condition of certain premises in the parish
referred to in a report received from the Mansion House
Council on the Dwellings of the People, as follows :—
To the Members of the United Vestry of St. Margaret and
St. John, Westminster.
Gentlemen,
In compliance with your request I have examined all the places
you have referred to me. First, with regard to Lewisham
Street, I am sorry to say that the statement of the Inspector
of the Mansion House Committee, with one or two trilling exceptions,
is correct, and that the houses show a want of due
inspection on behalf of your Inspector of a very grave character.
Not only do the defects that are enumerated in the printed
particulars exist, but the premises are filthily dirty, and in my
opinion, in a disgraceful condition. The houses 27, 25, 24, and 22,
are, in my opinion, not fit for human habitation, and ought to be
at once demolished.
I next visited Horse Shoe Alley, and found that the statement
was mainly true. The yards were badly bricked, the
drinking cistern was in almost every case connected with the
eloset, and so far rendered exceedingly dangerous. None of the