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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
Rotherhithe 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]
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5s. 4d. if the amount paid to Bermondsey last year is included, of which sum £23 10s. is
accounted for in the item "Cleaning and repairing urinals," which is only done every alternate
year.
The saving per annum in terminating the joint maintenance of the two before-mentioned
urinals amounts to £24 4s. 10d., as against £15 estimated by me.
At the commencement of the year the Public Lamps in the Parish numbered as follows: —
| Ordinary Street Lamps | 502 | |
| Sugg's Patent | 6 | |
| 10 ft. and 7 ft. per hour | 3 | |
| Large Lanters | 11 | |
| 522 |
Seven new lamps have been erected and two discontinued, as under: —
NEW LAMPS.
| Opposite 1, Silverlock Street | 1 | ||
| ,, 1G, Silverlock Street | 1 | ||
| „ 7, Westlake Road | 1 | ||
| „ Bull Head Wharf | 1 | ||
| ,, Hickling Street | 1 | ||
| „ St. Mary Church Street | 1 | ||
| „ Paradise Street | 1 | ||
| — | 7 | ||
| LAMPS DISCONTINUED. | |||
| Corbett's Lane | 2 | ||
| 2 | |||
| 5 | |||
| Total | 527 | ||