Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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crossing refuges, making a total of 1,133 public lamps in the
District, belonging to the Board.
As in previous years, the lamps in the main public ways
within the District were lighted during dark and foggy days
at the cost of £14 12s. 1 d. for the year.
Street "Refuges.
A new street-crossing refuge was formed during the year at the south-east corner of Russell Square. The refuges now existing within the St. Giles District are as follows:-
In Bloomsbury Street | south side of Shaftesbury Avenue |
Do. | south end, by Broad Street. |
„ Broad Street | east of Endell Street. |
„ Charing Cross Road | north end, by High Street. |
Do. | by New Compton Street. |
Do. | south end, by Cambridge Circus. |
„ Endell Street | north end, by Broad Street. |
„ Guilford Street | west end, by Russell Square. |
„ High Holborn | east of Little Queen Street. |
Do. | west of Little Queen Street. |
Do. | at junction with New Oxford Street. |
„ High Street | at north end, by New Oxford Street. |
„ New Oxford Street | west of its junction with Bloomsbury Street. |
Do. | east of its junction with Bloomsbury Street. |
Do. | by Hart Street. |
Do. | west end, by Tottenham Court Road. |
Do. | at junction with Charing Cross Road. |
„ Russell Square | by Southampton Row. |
„ Shaftesbury Avenue | ,, New Oxford Street. |
Do. | opposite French Church. |
Do. | „ 212, Shaftesbury Avenue. |
Do. | ,, north-west corner of Broad Street. |
Do. | „ Dyott Street. |
Do. | west of Endell Street. |
Do. | opposite Clarkes Buildings. |
Do. | „ south-west corner of High Street. |
Do. | by Great St. Andrew Street. |
Do. | „ Little Earl Street. |
„ Theobalds Road | west end, by Southampton Row. |
„ Tottenham Court Road | south end, by New Oxford Street. |