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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
Lambeth 1877
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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The charge for lighting and extinguishing, and Gas supplied by that Company for the year previous to the above arrangement —viz., from 25th March, 1875, to the 25th March, 1876—
| amounted to the sum of | £3609 | 7 | 5 |
| For the year ending the 25th March, 1878, on the Meter System, with 5 more Lamps | 3075 | 1 | 10 |
| 534 | 5 | 7 | |
| Deduct expenses of Inspector's salary per annum | 125 | 0 | 0 |
| 409 | 5 | 7 | |
| For Maintenance | 80 | 0 | 0 |
| 329 | 5 | 7 | |
| For the Quarter ended the 25th March, 1878, the Company reduced their price 3d. per Thousand, which will detract from the comparative saving | 51 | 17 | 1 |
| Net saving | £277 | 8 | 6 |
In the Waterloo Road, 2nd Sub-District, 133 houses have been
pulled down for the extension of the Waterloo Railway Terminus,
causing the displacement of about 250 families or nearly
1000 persons. In the Waterloo 1st district, however, concurrently
with this destruction of property, some blocks of
Peabody's Buildings have been erected, containing 351 families,
or a total population of 1441.
In East Street, Kennington Road, on a site where stood some
houses which had been pronounced by me as being unfit for
habitation, Mr. Sansom has erected a block of Model Dwellings
for the Artizan Class, known as Claydon Buildings. It is four
stories high, and contains 35 separate suites of four rooms each,
and is intended to accommodate 35 families or about 200 persons.
The design is an excellent one, and many more after the
same model would be a great boon to the poorer classes. There
is one most important sanitary arrangement such blocks of houses
admit of, which cannot be applied to small house property, and