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Bethnal Green 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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The following lamps are maintained at the expense
of the Great Eastern Railway Company :—
Arundel Street 3
Brady Street 3
Brick Lane 2
Birkbeck Street 1
Buck hurst Street 2
Coventry 8treet 3
Collingwood Street 4
Grove Passage 1
Morpeth Street 1
Nottingham Street 3
old Bethnal Green Road 1
Tapp Street 3
Three Colts Lane 1
Ditto corner (bridge) 2
Wast Street 1
Whelor Street (lighted
day and night) 2
Total 33
Private Standard Lamps are kept in lighting at
private cost during the same hours as the public lamps,
as follows:—
Grove Road (in front of No. 182) 1
Bethnal Green Road (in front of No. 343) 2
Old Nichol Street (in front of Holy Trinity Club
House) 3
Hill Street (in front of Seabright Music Hall, and
at end of passage leading from Hackney Road) 4
Cambridge Road (opposite " Salmon and Ball "
Public-house) Fire Brigade Lamp 1
Old Ford Road (opposite Globe Road) Fire Brigade
Lamp 1
Columbia Road (by the Market and by the Triangle) 6
The cost of public lighting during the year was as
follows :
Gas Light and Coke Co., for lighting
public Lamps
£2994
0
1
Gas Light and Coke Co., for Vestry Hall,
Mortuary, Digby Street yard, and St.
John's Church Clock
67
9
8
Gas Light and Coke Co., for alterations
and new services
10
9
0
Commercial Gas Co., for lighting public
Lamps
318
11
7
Ditto, for Repairs, &c.
1
11
0
£3392
1
4
Amount repaid to Vestry for private
18
4
8
Net Total
£3373
16
8
Cost of
Lighting