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Shoreditch 1888

[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 March , 1889.

Surveyor's men erecting 27 new lamp columns, rearranging the positions of 49, and re-instating foot and carriage-ways disturbed, and re-instating footways to 44 bracket lamps (labour)£39186
Mr. Tilley, supplying 60 14-inch lamps, and 44 14-inch cradle irons, supplying and fixing 69 brackets, and removing and re-fixing 19 brackets, fitting up 27 new columns, removing decayed fittings from 34 lamps and re-fitting with new, repairing 40 lever cocks and 3 lighting torches, and repairing 191 lamp governors, supplying 6 dozen lever cocks, 12 dozen lamp governors and 1 dozen Bray's burners for large lamps, removing and re-fixing 6 meters and meter boxes2201811
Messrs. Sugg & Co., supplying 3 18-inch Victoria lamps and ladder irons, repairing 2 meters and removing and re-fixing 1 meter and meter box, &c.15179
Mr. Ungar, Supplying and fixing 68 improved lamps and 2 back lamps, and 1 100-candle power lamp and column and fitting up same with ladder irons and spindles17297
Mr. Sears, repairing 2 columns with wrought iron cores130
Jukes, Coulson & Co., supplying 30 lamp columns, weighing 10 tons 9 cwt. 3 qrs., at 5/10½ per ton.58138
Mr. Pratt, 12 enamelled iron caution tablets.4120