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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
Wandsworth 1893
Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1893
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DETAILS OF LIGHTING.
| PARISH. | Wandsworth and Putnev Gas Company. | (a) South Metropolitan Gas Company. | Mitcham Gas Company. | Brentford Gas Company. | Total Number of Lamps in each Parish. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Lamps at £3 14 6. | By meter at 2s. 8d. per 1000 feet. | Total Number | Number of Lamps at £3 13 9. | Number of Lamps at £3 3 9. | Number of Lamps at £5 12 0. | Number of Lamps at £3 4 9. | By meter at 28. 3d. per 1000 feet. | Total Number. | Number of Lamps at £4 4 0. | N umber of Lamps at £3 7 6. (b) | By meter at 3s. 8d. per 1000 feet. | Total Number. | Number of Lamps at £4 1 7. | ||
| CLAPHAM | .. | .. | .. | .. | 900 | 16 | .. | 11 | 927 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 927 (e) |
| PUTNEY | 462 | .. | 462 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 65 | 527 (d) |
| STKEATHAH | .. | .. | .. | 38 | 882½ | 41 | 4 | 4 | 969½ | 97½ | .. | 97½ | .. | 1067 | |
| TOOTING | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ½ | 8 | 123 | 3 | 134 | .. | 134½ | ||
| WANDSWORTH | 1032 | 1032 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ½ | .. | 1032½ (e) | ||
| Totals | 1494 | .. | 1494 | 38 | 1783 | 57 | 4 | 15 | 1897 | 106 | 123 | 3 | 232 | 65 | 3688 |
(а) The prices charged by the South Metropolitan Gas Company are subject to a discount of 5 per cent, on payment within a month of quarter day.
(b) These lamps are extinguished at midnight.
( c) Exclusive of one obelisk lamp, burning 30 cubic feet per hour, at .£15 13j. 6rf. per annum.
(d) Exclusive of two 90-light Sugg's lamps fixed in front of the Railway Station, lighted by the L. & S. W. R. Company and the cost of two ordinary street lamps only charged
to the Board, one special lamp at £11 4s. per annum, three at ^9 15s. 4d., and two double lamps at £6 13s. per annum.
(e) Exclusive of a 200-candle Bray's lamp at East Hill charged as two ordinary lamps, one 80-candle Bray's lamp at the Town Hall at 14s. id. per annum, one Schultz lamp
at West Hill at ,£10 10s. per annum, one Sugg's 4-light lamp at fountain at £22 8s. per annum, and one double lamp at Summerstown at &6 18^. 8d. per annum.