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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.
The illuminating power of the Gas supplied to the
Workhouse in Mount Street, during the second quarter of
1859, when burned in a batswing burner, at the rate of
2.5 feet per hour, was equal to that of 15.5 sperm candles,
burning at the rate of 120 grains per hour.
No sulphuretted hydrogen was detected during the
quarter.
The illuminating power of the Gas supplied to the
room in West Basin Road during the same period, when
burned in a batswing burner, gave an average result
equal to that of 10.8 sperm candles, burning at the above
rate; and no sulphuretted hydrogen was discovered.