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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 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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TABLE V.
Shelving the comparative Cost of Gas and the Saving under the New System.
| Number of hours charged for. | Consumption per hour charged. cu. ft. | Consumption per lamp per quarter cu. ft. | Number of Lamps. | Total Consumption per quarter. | Rate per 1000-ft. | £ | s. | d. | Saving. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||||||
| A Old System, June, 1888 | Sunset to Sunrise. | 788.8 | X 5. = | 3944.00 | X 1438.96 = | 5,675,258 | X 2/2 = | 614 | 16 | 4 | |||
| B New System, June, 1888 | Actual Number of Burning Hours. | 643.88 | X 4.74 = | 3056.49 | X 1438.96 = | 4,398,166 | X „ = | 476 | 9 | 2 | = 138 | 7 | 2 |
| C Old System, Sept., 1888 | Sunset to Sunrise. | 882.25 | X 5. = | 4411.25 | X 1435.92 = | 6,334,202 | X „ = | 686 | 4 | 1 | |||
| D New System, Sept., 1888 | Actual Number ofBurning Hours. | 723.51 | X 4.78 = | 3461.17 | X 1435.92 = | 4,969,963 | X „ = | 538 | 8 | 3 | = 147 | 15 | 10 |
| E Old System, Dec., 1888 | Sunset to Sunrise. | 1371.61 | X 5. = | 6858.05 | X 1431.42 = | 9,816,749 | X „ M = | 1063 | 9 | 7 | |||
| F New System, Dec., 1888 | Actual Number off BurningHours. | 1276.62 | X 4.57 = | 5841.94 | X 1431.42 = | 8,362,269 | X „ = | 905 | 18 | 3 | 157 | 11 | 4 |
| G Old system, March, 1889 | Sunset to Sunrise. | 1257.34 | X 5. = | 6286.70 | X 1389.86 = | 8,737,632 | X „ = | 946 | 11 | 6 | |||
| H New System, March, 1889 | Actual Number ofBurning Hours. | 1186.39 | X 4.54 = | 5386.75 | X 1389.86 = | 7,486,828 | X „ = | 811 | 1 | 6 | = 135 | 10 | 0 |
| Total Saying in the cost of Gas for the year | £579 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||