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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 1859
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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APPENDIX.
An examination of the Gas supplied to the Workhouse in
Mount Street, at sundry times during the first quarter of
1859, showed its illuminating power to be such that, burned
with a batswing burner, at the rate of 2.5 feet per hour, it
yielded a light equal to that of 13.8 sperm candles, burning
at the rate of 120 grains per hour.
No sulphuretted hydrogen was detected during the
quarter.
The result of experiments made between January 14th,
1859, and March 31st, 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 11.89 sperm candles
burning 120 grains per hour; and that no sulphuretted
hydrogen was detected in the Gas.