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Shoreditch 1884

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

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TABLE I.

Cost of New Works for the year, to March31st, 1885.

Surveyor's men erecting 39 new lamp columns, rearranging the positions of 44, and removing 5 discontinued, and re-instating foot and carriageways disturbed (labour)£2516
Mr. Tilley, supplying 50 14-inch lanterns and 25 oradle irons, 6 dozen 3/8-inch brass sockets, fixing and fitting up 13 new brackets, fitting up 26 columns, also removing decayed fittings from 39 lamps and columns and fitting up same with new, removing 27 decayed cradle irons and 18 lanterns and fixing new, fixing and fitting up 1 100 and 2 60-candle power lamps at refuges and providing and fixing double ladder irons to each, removing 11 ordinary lamps, and fixing and fitting 11 18-inch Victoria lamps, &c.18563
Mr. Seager supplying 25 octagon cast iron lamp columns and 24 street posts, weighing 11 tons 13 cwt. 2 qrs., at 6/9 per cwt.7816
Messrs. Sugg & Co., supplying 1 100 and 2 60-candle lamps and 12 18-inch Victoria lamps, and 60 new governors64120
Gas Company shifting services for removals and alterations21127
£37636