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Shoreditch 1891

[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,1892.

Supplying 25 14 inch lamps and 25 14-inch cradle irons; 12 16-inch lamps and 12 16-inch cradle irons; 24 6-inch iron spindles; 12 standpipes; 6 14-inch porcelain cones; 6 20-inch porcelain cones; 24 ¾ and finch nipples; 1 dozen ½-inch short pieces; 6 bracket irons and fitting up same, and 24 spindles, etc.36199
Tools259
135 opal street name tablets786
11 octagon lamp columns, weighing 65 cwt. 0 qrs. 9 lbs., at 7/6 per cwt.2489
Wages, fitting up 23 new lamps, fixing street name and caution tablets and new standpipes22110
Erecting 20 new lamp columns, rearranging the positions of 23, removing 8 discontinued, and reinstating foot and carriageways disturbed, and reinstating footways to 9 bracket lamps, and ground disturbed in removing decayed fittings (labour)1830
Lamplighters' wages for large lamps16400
Materials and labour repairing, painting and glazing 192 large lamps and columns, and painting guard posts at refuges46130
Removal of lamp services808
£330105

TABLE II.

Statement of the cost of Repairs and Painting, Lighting and Extinguishing and Cleaning, for the year to March,1892.

Materials and labour for repairing, painting nd glazing 1,422 14-inch ordinary lamps, columns, brackets, standpipes, etc.137165
Lamplighters' Wages90840
do. for holiday620
Rewards to police constables and others230
£105455

TABLE III.

Cost of Maintenance of Meters and Governors, etc. Salaries and Expenses

for the year to March,1892.

Maintenance of meters and governors (proportion)3400
Inspector's salary20000
£23400