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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

Shoreditch 1861

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]

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LIGHTING THE PARISH.
The Vestry Contract with the Independent Gas Light Company, at
Haggerstone, for the lighting all the Public Lamps in this Parish, that is
situate on the North-side of Worship Street, at £4 per lamp per annum,
which includes the supply of new burners, service pipes, and fittings, for
the same complete, with painting, repairing, and all removals required
to be made by the Vestry.
The Chartered Gas Company in Curtain Road, and Worship Street,
agree with the Vestry, to light all the public lamps on the South-side of
Worship Street, on the following terms, viz.:
Newcastle Coal Gas—
4-feet per hour each lamp . .per annum £3 16 0
with 15/- each for lighting, cleansing, painting, repairs, &c.
A Meter was ordered to be applied to six of the lamps lighted by the
Chartered Gas Company, to test the quantity supplied; but this order
has not yet been carried out.

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Broken Granite Cubic Yards.Ballast Cubic Yards.Flints Cubic Yards.
Livermere-road. .66. .
Little Cambridge-street. .64. .
Lee-street. .72. .
Maidstone-street. .4. .
Moneyers-street. .58. .
Mintern-street. .4018
Martha-street. .18. .
Mansfield-street. .136. .
Marlborough-road. .22. .
Murray-street53. .. .
Myrtle-street. .104
Margaret-street2. .108
New North-road523. .. .
Newton-street. .21. .
North-place, Margaret-street. .7. .
Nicholas-street. .5. .
Northport-street1254. .
New Inn roadway. .38. .
Norfolk-gardens. .4. .
New-street, Goldsmith's-row. .12. .
Old-street-road341. .. .
Park-place. .24. .
Parr-street. .38. .
Phillipps-street. .. .92
Pearson-street. .. .12
Pownall-road. .12. .
Princes-street, Haggerstone. .42. .
Pritchards-road228. .
Pool-street5. .. .
Penn-street. .. .18
Queens-road. .. .277
Queens-street, Haggerstone. .22. .
Regent-row or Road. .49. .
Rushton-street. .25. .
Robert-street, Hoxton. .57. .

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SPECIAL CONTRACTS.
The Vestry have entered into Special Contracts for the following Works, viz.:
A Special Contract with Mr. Henry Booth, of Kingsland Road
Bridge, dated the 20th August, 1861, for the Relaying the Carriage-way
of Pitfield Street, part of Old Street Road, from Kingsland Road to
Curtain Road, and part of Tabernacle Walk, for the sum of £4,605,
subject to the sums therein set forth as provisions for the Works therein
specified, and which amounted to £472.