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 Bethnal Green]
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The total number of Lamps is as follows :—
Gas-Light and Coke Co. 887 5 feet Lamps.
„ ,, 4 3-light Sugg's Lamps.
„ „ 3 2-light ditto
Commercial Gas Co. 78 5 feet Lamps.
„ ,, 2 3-light Sugg's Lamps.
And the amounts paid for lighting, including cleaning
and repairing lamps, meter rents, &c., were for street
lighting by the Gas - Light and Coke Company
£3,013 15s. 0d.
For gas consumed and meter rents at Vestry Hall,
Mortuary, Digby street yard and the clock at St. John's
Church, £78 5s. 4d.
The sum of £334 17s. 0d. was also paid to the
Commercial Gas Co. for street lighting.
The cost of lighting the following lamps (not included
in the above totals) is paid by the Great Eastern
Railway Co.
Arundel street 3 Old Bethnal Green rd. 1
Brady street 2 Tapp street 1
Brick lane 2 Three Colt lane 1
Birkbeck street 1 West street 1
Coventry street 1 Wheler street 2
Collingwood street 1 (Lighted Day & Night)—
Grove passage 1 Total 21
Morpeth street 1
Nottingham street 3
DISINFECTING APPARATUS.
The disinfector referred to in the report of last year
was first used on May 22nd, and I am informed by the