Supplemental report to the Sanitary Committee of the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, on the subject of a constant supply of water in courts and alleys / by W. Sedgwick Saunders.

  • Saunders, W. Sedgwick (William Sedgwick), 1824-1901.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Supplemental report to the Sanitary Committee of the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, on the subject of a constant supply of water in courts and alleys / by W. Sedgwick Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    past month, and have also received complaints from owners of adjoining premises of leakage from those now in use. New Court, Moor Lane.—Of 17 houses, seven are supplied by butts in cellars, and the remainder by cisterns over water-closets in yard; these are much neglected by the tenants, being often in a very dirty state, and sometimes the adjoining tenants will throw offensive matter into them to annoy their neighbours. This I have found the case during the past week. No. 9, in this place, consists of three rooms and a cellar, occupied by nine persons, whose water-supply consists of a butt in the cellar, in a leaky condition, and capable of holding 36 gallons only. May Square.—Eight houses supplied by cistern over closet. I have frequent complaints of tliis place, and it has several times occurred that the hds of the cisterns have been feloniously removed, and the water made offensive ; and it has been reported to me that boys have been seen to wash their feet in the cistern. No. 2, Hanover Court, Milton Street—consists of six rooms, occupied by 13 persons ; watei'-supply, a butt in cellar liolding 50 gallons.