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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
St James's 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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GENERAL WORKS
| SITUATION. | DESCRIPTION or WORK. | AMOUNT EXPENDED | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STAND POSTS AND HOSE. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Brought forward | ... | 293 | 19 | 0 | |||
| Gulden Square | Repairs to Stand Post | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Hire of Pump | 5 | 10 | 0 | ||||
| Ryder Street | Hire of Hose | 0 | 8 | 6 | |||
| Do. for Urinals | 0 | 6 | 6 | ||||
| Generally | Preparing and Retiring Hose and Stand Pipes | 10 | 12 | 6 | |||
| 19 | 2 | 6 | |||||
| NAMES TO STREETS. | |||||||
| Generally | Purchase of Letters and Fixing Names | ... | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| BOUNDARY PLATES. | |||||||
| Generally | Painting Boundary Plates | ... | 3 | 5 | 6 | ||
| LAMPS. | |||||||
| Golden Square | Eight New Lamps and Fixing name. | 30 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Repaid | 12 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Marlboro Row | One New Bray's Lamp and Fixing | 9 | 2 | 0 | |||
| St. James's Place | One New Lamp | 3 | 17 | 6 | |||
| Refuges—Haymarket ana Regent Street | Included in cost of Refuges. | ||||||
| Rupert | Altering position of Lamp | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||
| 178. Piccadilly | Fixing Lamps Post | 0 | 9 | 6 | |||
| Ryder Street | Two New Lamps Posts and Fixing | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 21 | 10 | 6 | |||||
| LAMPS REPAIRED. | |||||||
| Generally | 35Lampsrepaired from accident or wilful damage | ... | 10 | 6 | 0 | ||
| N.B.—Three New Lamps have been added in Great Vine Street, the cost of which will appear in the current year's account—probably about £15 | Total | 371 | 3 | 6 | |||
| SUMMARY. | |||||||
| Paving Works | 5,811 | 15 | 8 | ||||
| Repairs to Streets | 2,074 | 8 | 7 | ||||
| Sewer and Miscellaneous Works | 371 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| Total | £3,287 | 7 | 9 | ||||