Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-first annual report of the Vestry of the Parish of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell for the year 1896-97
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Lighting.—The number of public lamps in the
main Parish at the close of the year was 920. The
gas is supplied by the Gas Light & Coke Company,
who also light, clean, and glaze the lamps. The
amount paid to the Company was £3128 8s. 6d.
The gas in the detached portion is supplied by the
Hornsey Gas Company, the number of lamps being
21, and the cost for lighting and gas being £65
19s. l0d. Further particulars as to lighting will
be found in the Surveyor's report.
Premises belonging to the Vestry.—The following
particulars are given with reference to the
various buildings and premises belonging to the
Vestry:—
The Vestry Hall, Rosornan Street.—Until 1888,
held on lease from the New River Company, at a
ground rent of ,£10, which would have expired in
1903. The freehold was in February, 1888, purchased
for the sum of £2,132.
The New Town Hall in Bosebery Avenue, the
freehold site of which was purchased in 1893 from
the County Council for the sum of £6,210, and the
building erected in 1894 and 1895 at a cost of
£18,333 7s.
The Mortuary, Coroner's Court and Disinfecting
Oven.—Erected on a portion of Spa Fields Burial
Ground in 1876, at a cost of £2,433 1s. 11d., the
land being leased from the Marquess Northampton
for 50 years, at a rent of 10s. per annum.
Nos. 47 and 49, Northampton Road.—Leasehold
premises purchased in 1876 for the sum of £750 to