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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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BALLASTING STREETS.
Additional ballast bins have been fixed as follows:—
1 in Leicester Square.
1 on refuge Charing Cross Road.
1 „ Trafalgar Square, North.
1 „ Endell Street.
1 „ Charing Cross.
1 in Salisbury Street.
1 in Duke Street.
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| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brought forward | 2,978 | 12 | 10 |
| Clarkson, IT., Hire of Ilorses and Drivers and Machine Brooms (contract) | 1,768 | 0 | 6 |
| Repairs to vans | 79 | 10 | 0 |
| Brooms, baskets, shovels, &c. | 52 | 18 | 6 |
| Water flushings | 37 | 9 | 1 |
| 4,916 | 10 | 11 | |
| Credit Amount receivable in respect of trade refuse removed for parishioners | 374 | 3 | 0 |
| Net cost | £4,542 | 7 | 11 |
STREET WATERING.
This work has cost—
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 665 | 10 | 7 |
| Horse Hire (washing) | 29 | 14 | 0 |
| Brooms, squeegees, and sundries | 24 | 5 | 0 |
| Water | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Hand Trucks | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| « | £734 | 14 | 7 |
In the very hot weather a solution of manganate of soda and
sulphuric acid, being similar to the disinfectants used in flushing the
courts and alleys, is mixed with the water.
The stand post in St. Martin's Street, supplied with water from
ELM. Office of Works, has been removed, the water for same not,
having been constant; a new one, supplied with water from the
New River Company, having been fixed in Leicester Square in
substitution therefor.