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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 1886

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

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Table: TABLE IV.Detail* of the Hours Burning per Lamp, and Savings in respect of Twilight, for the Year.

TABLE IV.

Detail* of the Hours Burning per Lamp, and Savings in respect of Twilight, for the Year.

Quarter ending.Number of Hours Burning per Quarter.Average Number of Hours Burning per Night.Savings in respect of Twilight.
Hours.MinutesHours.Minutes.Hours.Minutes.
1886.—June6414873147—
September7055874017617
,, December126316134310821
1887.—March1171371318543
The Year378239102151721