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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
Bethnal Green 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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Gas Light and Coke Company, 1 special lamp over
Urinal, Austin
Street, burning 14.4
feet per hour.
„ „ 1 ditto over Urinal,
Gibraltar Walk,
burning 15 feet
per hour.
„ „ 1 ditto over Urinal,
opposite Bethnal
Green Junction,
supplied by meter.
„ „ 1 ditto ditto, Teesdale
Street, supplied by
meter.
Commercial Gas Company 80 5-feet lamps.
„ „ 1 3-liglit Sugg's lamp,
supplied by meter.
„ „ 2 ditto ditto on Urinal,
Bethnal Green Road.
The following lamps are maintained at the expense
of the Great Eastern Railway Company:—
Arundel Street 3
Brady Street 3
Brick Lane 2
Birkbeek Street 1
Buckhurst Street 2
Coventry Street 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
West Street 1
Wheler Street (lighted day and night) 2
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| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church Street—Re-lay of part of the carriageway and footway | 61 | 18 | 8 |
| North. Place—Crossings, &c., in connection with paving North Passage | 7 | 9 | 5 |
| Wolverley Street—In connection with | 3 | 17 | 9 |
| Digby Street—Footway on North side paved with " in situ " Victoria paving | 42 | 5 | 3 |
| Hollybush Place—Part of carriageway paved with old pitchings | 33 | 15 | 6 |
| Columbia Road—Carriageway from Barnet Grove, Eastward to Hackney Road, widened and re-paved | 593 | 1 | 7 |
| And the footways altered in width, re-kerbed and re-paved—part with York paving, and part with "in situ" Victoria stone | 273 | 1 | 7 |