Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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Public Lighting.
The re-arrangement of the public lamps and the substitution
of new lamp posts and circular lamps for those of the
old patterns, were proceeded with during the year; the total
number of the new lamp posts and lanterns in the District
each consuming 5 feet of gas per hour is 887; of the old
pattern square lamps, 164. There are also 61 lamps of
larger size at the corners of certain streets and on the
crossing refuges, making a total of 1,112 public lamps in the
District belonging to the Board.
Your Board during the year considered the question of
the cleansing of the tablets indicating the position of the
fire-plugs attached to many of the public lamps in the District,
and, after some negotiation, entered into an arrangement
with the Gas Light and Coke Co., by which the Company
undertakes to clean all such tablets for the sum of £ 10
per annum. As in previous years, the lamps in the main
public ways within the District were lighted during dark
and foggy days at a cost of £25 for the year.
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