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Shoreditch 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]

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The cost for current trimming and maintenance charged for the three quarters
amount to £1682 12s. 11d,
85 more public arc lamps and 170 incandescent lamps are on order, and will
soon be erected in the following streets.
Kingsland Road New North Road Bridport Place
Hoxton Street East Road
167 consumers' private premises have been wired and fitted for the electric
light, with an equivalent of 25,698 eight candle power lamps, including 70 arc lamps
and 327 horse power motors. 86 premises have been wired and fitted for the electric
light, with an equivalent to 5,840 eight candle power lamps, including 3 horse power
motors and 38 arc lamps, by the Vestry's staff of wiremen, at a cost of £3,648 15s. 8d.
or labour and materials, repaid to the Vestry by the consumers.

COST OF NEW WORKS AND MATERIALS FOR THE YEAR.

£s.d.
Macfarlane & Co., supplying eight electric columns and two brackets72185
The General Electric Co., lamp shades and fittings104110
Thames Iron Works Co., erecting and fitting one arc column176
Works Department, reinstating foot and carriageways around lamp columns39170
French Asphalte Co., reinstating Asphalte footways around lamp columns1140
Reason & Co., waterproof switches for street lamps5176
Gas Light Co., removing services2660
Now River Co., removing water mains, for fixing electric columns12109
Cohen, lamp globes108
Parry, tools2151
Ell & Co., ladders, steps and hire of materials for repairs11140
Trestles and boards686
Clark & Hunt, ironmongery4116
Parkinson, lever cocks and gas governors18160
Sugg & Co., burners and glasses4160
Tilley, lamps and fittings95129
Evered & Co., fittings24109
Nicholl's & Clark, glass and paint4998
G. Smith, rubber stamps223
Dr. Oliver, medical fee0106
W . Gibbs, street name tablets140
£488135