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St Giles (Camden) 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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Public Urinals.
The public urinals in the District belonging to the Board
are 17 in number, and contain 50 compartments ; 12 of the
urinals, containing 42 compartments, have water laid on to
them ; the others are without water supply. The whole are
cleansed daily by the Board's workmen.
LIST OF PUBLIC URINALS IN THE ST. GILES DISTRICT.
| Bainbridge Street | 5 compartments, fitted with water supply. |
| Chenies Mews, north | 3 do. do. do. |
| Colonnade | 1 do. do. do. |
| Dunn's Passage | 5 do. do. do. |
| Lascelles Court | 4 do. do. do. |
| Morwell Street | 3 do. do. do. |
| Parker Street | 2 do. do. do. |
| Galen Place | 3 do. do. do. |
| Seven Dials | 6 do. do. do. |
| Short's Gardens | 6 do. do. do. |
| Torrington Mews | 1 do. do. do. |
| Whetstone Park | 3 do. do. do. |
| Bernard Mews | 3 do. not fitted with water supply. |
| Caroline Mews | 1 do. do. do. |
| Hunter Mews | 1 do. do. do. |
| Nottingham Court | 1 do. do. do. |
| Southampton Mews | 2 do. do. do. |
Public Lighting.
The re-arrangement of the public lamps and the substitution
of new lamp posts and circular lamps for those of the
old patterns, were proceeded with during the year ; the total
number of the new lamp posts and lanterns in the District is
868 ; of the old pattern square lamps, 183. There are also
59 lamps of larger size at the corners of certain streets and
on the public crossing refuges, making a total of 1110 public
lamps in the District, belonging to your Board.