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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 Martin-in-the-Fields 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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The cost of lighting, cleansing, and maintaining has been as follows:—
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gas Light and Coke Company—Gas | 2,540 | 19 | 9 |
| Repairs to lanterns and painting | 14 | 9 | 6 |
| Alterations in the position of lamps | 28 | 6 | 2 |
| New columns and lanterns | 87 | 2 | 9 |
| St. James' Vestry—Moiety of cost of 3 refuge lamps in the Haymarket | 42 | 15 | 4 |
| £2,713 | 13 | 6 |
The surfaces of the wood and asphalte pavements are washed as
often as is found necessary, fifteen orderly men are also employed in
collecting horse droppings, and for the first part of the day in
spreading ballast upon the roadways.
The cost has been as follows :—
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wages, Sweepers | 387 | 16 | 5 |
| „ Dustmen | 337 | 17 | 6 |
| „ Work for the Unemployed | 101 | 0 | 11 |
| „ Gabriel, J. S., receiving rough dust (contract) | 1,430 | 18 | 0 |
| „ „ slop („) | 721 | 0 | 0 |
| Carried forward | £2,978 | 12 | 10 |
The footways in front of vacant spaces have been swept and
cleansed as previously, and on and after the 1st of January, 1892,
when the provisions of the New Public Health Act (London), 1891,
came into force, the whole of the footways in the parish have been
regularly swept and cleansed, with the exception of those formerly
cleansed by H.M. Office of Works, which were taken over by the
Vestry on April 1, 1892. The number of men employed upon
this work and the cleansing of the courts has varied from 4 to 10,
according to the state of the weather
This work has cost £257 7s. 6d.