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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 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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| Surveyor's men erecting 12 new lamp columns, rearranging the positions of 22, and removing 6 discontinued, and re-instating foot and carriageways disturbed (labour) | £17 | 13 | 9 |
| Mr. Tilley, supplying 25 14-inch lanterns, and 25 14-inch cradle irons, 3 dozen 3/8-inch brass sockets providing and fitting up 5 new brackets, fitting up 12 columns, also removing decayed fittings from 51 lamps and columns and fitting up same with new, removing 17 decayed cradle irons and 8 lanterns and fixing new, fixing and fitting up 1 80 candle power lamp at refuge and providing double laddor iron, removing 36 ordinary lamps and cradles, and fixing and fitting 36 18-inch Victoria lamps, and 2 16-inch lamps, etc. | 139 | 5 | 0 |
| Mr. Seager supplying 20 octagon cast iron lamp columns and 20 street posts, weighing 9 tons 2 cwt. 2 qrs., at 6/9 per cwt. | 61 | 11 | 10½ |
| Messrs. Sugg & Co., supplying 1 80 candle power lamp and column and 36 18-inch Victoria lamps and 5 new governors | 109 | 1 | 4 |
| Gas Company shifting services for removals and alterations | 17 | 14 | 1 |
| £345 | 6 | 0½ |