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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
Hanover Square 1858
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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APPENDIX.
On the Gas supplied by the Chartered and
London Companies.
The result of experiments made between the 21st October
and the 31st December, 1858, on the gas supplied by the
Chartered Company, to the Work House in Mount Street is,
that a batswing burner, consuming 2.5 feet per hour, gave a
light equal, on the average, to that of 14 sperm candles,
burning 120 grains per hour; and that no sulphuretted hydrogen
was detected in the gas.
The result of experiments made between the 27th of October,
1858, and the 4th of January, 1859, on the gas supplied
by the London Company to the room in West Basin
Road, Belgravia, is, that a batswing burner, consuming 2.5
feet per hour, gave a light equal, on the average, to that of
11.1 sperm candles, burning 120 grains per hour; and that
no sulphuretted hydrogen was detected in the gas.