Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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During the year the following lamps have been cut off:-
2 in Whitehall attached to Urinal now removed.
1 in Whitchall Yard (passage to Middle Scotland Yard).
1 upon old Urinal in Leicester Square.
Additional lamps have been fixed as follows:—
1 in Taylor's Buildings, near St. Martin's Lane.
1 in Whitehall Yard, opposite entrance to Middle Scotland
Yard.
1 in "Two Spies" Court (at the joint expense of the Vestry
and Strand District Board of Works).
1 (20-ft. lamp) on new Refuge in Whitehall Yard.
1 in York Place Urinal.
2 on Urinal in Leicester Square.
The ornamental globe lamps in Northumberland Avenue are
now supplied direct from the mains, the two large meters having
been removed.
Three lamp columns of the new pattern were fixed in Duncannon
Street, and one in St. Martin's Lane opposite May's Buildings at
the time of re-paving the footways; a new pattern lamp column has
also been fixed on the south footway in Whitehall.
A lamp column has been fixed on the new footway in Whitehall
Yard, in substitution of a previous bracketted lamp attached to
the adjoining boarded fence.
The position of a lamp column on the north footway in Wilson
Street has also been slightly altered to allow of its being farther
from a paved crossing.
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The following is a statement of the number of public lamps on the 25th March, 1893, with consumption of gas and cost per annum:—
No. of Lamps. | Cubic feet of Gas consumed per hour. | Cost per annum. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
£ | S. | d. | ||
559 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 3 per lamp. |
34 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 4 „ |
6 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 1 „ |
2 | 19 | 9 | 12 | 2 „ |
15 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 9 „ |
2 | 25 | 12 | 3 | 5 „ |
2 | 50 till midnight | 17 | 13 | 6 „ |
20 after | ||||
10 | 32 till midnight | 11 | 12 | 6 „ |
8 after „ |