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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
St Giles (Camden) 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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| Parker Street | 2 | do. | do. | do. |
| Pied Bull Yard | 3 | do. | do. | do. |
| Seven Dials | 6 | do. | do. | do. |
| Torrington Mews | 1 | do. | do. | do. |
| Whetstone Park | 3 | do. | do. | do. |
| Shorts Gardens | 6 | do. | do. | do. |
| Bernard Mews | 3 | do. | Water not laid on. | |
| Brewer Street | 1 | do. | do. | do. |
| Caroline Mews | 1 | do. | do. | do. |
| Chenies Mews, south | 1 | do. | do. | do. |
| Colonnade | 1 | do. | do. | do. |
| Hunter Mews | 1 | do. | do. | do. |
| Nottingham Court | 1 | do. | do. | do. |
| Southampton Mews | 2 | do. | do. | do. |
Public Lighting.
"Sugg's Improved Street Lamps," each giving a light
equal to 80 candles, were fixed on the crossing refuges in
New Oxford Street, opposite Museum Street, and in High
Holborn, by Little Queen Street, and one giving a light
of 50 candles at the west end of Theobald's Road.
One of 80 candles was also placed in High Street, on
the railings by the entrance to St. Giles Church.
The "Sugg's Improved Burners" and lamp on the
refuge, at the junction of High Holborn and New Oxford
Street, were removed, and on the application of Messrs.
Siemens, and at their expense, one of "Siemens' Patent
Regenerative Gas Burner Lamps," giving a light equal to
200 candles, was fixed in place thereof; a lamp on the same
principle, but giving a light of 80 candles, was also placed
at the refuge at the north end of High Street, St. Giles
also at the expense of the patentees.