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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 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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| Castings | 132 | 7 | 6 |
| Cartage (including ground to shoot) | 568 | 11 | 11 |
| Water for roads | 320 | 1 | 11 |
| Fitting new meter box at Great Cambridge Street | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Lard Oil for steam roller | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| Coke for ditto and yard | 28 | 9 | 0 |
| Disinfectants | 5 | 12 | 6 |
| Brooms, pails, mops, new sewer machine, &c. | 27 | 14 | 6 |
| Making good 3-in. main belonging to Gas Light and Coke Company | 2 | 10 | 9 |
| New hose for Beauvoir Wharf | 14 | 4 | 9 |
| Ditto for steam roller | 1 | 18 | 0 |
| For hoardings at Kiosk, Shoreditch High Street, and urinal at Hoxton Market and Goldsmith's Square. | 11 | 7 | 2 |
| Wheelwright—Truck repairs | 8 | 12 | 6 |
| Repairs to water cart | 2 | 19 | 0 |
| New sewer lamps | 4 | 8 | 3 |
| Timber | 6 | 14 | 3 |
| Slate channels, &c., for Kiosk, Shoreditch High Street | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| New waterproof sheet for steam roller | 1 | 18 | 6 |
| Surveying Instruments | 15 | 10 | 0 |
INVENTORY OF PLANT AND MATERIAL ON HAND AT
FLEMMING STREET YARD, 24th MARCH, 1892.
For Highways—
1 steam roller
1 tarpaulin for same
1 set leather hose for ditto
8 masons' and. paviors' trucks
3 box barrows
6 navvy do.
1 trolley
1 water cart
3 wooden shelters for watchmen
30 lamps for watching
1 large cast iron column and 6
iron posts taken from refuge by
Shored itch Church
9 cast iron street posts
12 galvanized pails
4 masons' beetles
48 „ chisels
12 „ pitching tools
6 „ bedding hammers
4 „ trowels
5 masons' levels
3 „ straight-edges
6 twivels
12 spalling hammers
6 paviors' do.
3 rammers
6 punnors
10 crowbars