Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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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. | 36 | 19 | 9 |
Tools | 2 | 5 | 9 |
135 opal street name tablets | 7 | 8 | 6 |
11 octagon lamp columns, weighing 65 cwt. 0 qrs. 9 lbs., at 7/6 per cwt. | 24 | 8 | 9 |
Wages, fitting up 23 new lamps, fixing street name and caution tablets and new standpipes | 22 | 11 | 0 |
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) | 18 | 3 | 0 |
Lamplighters' wages for large lamps | 164 | 0 | 0 |
Materials and labour repairing, painting and glazing 192 large lamps and columns, and painting guard posts at refuges | 46 | 13 | 0 |
Removal of lamp services | 8 | 0 | 8 |
10 | 5 |
TABLE II.
Materials and labour for repairing, painting nd glazing 1,422 14-inch ordinary lamps, columns, brackets, standpipes, etc. | 137 | 16 | 5 |
Lamplighters' Wages | 908 | 4 | 0 |
do. for holiday | 6 | 2 | 0 |
Rewards to police constables and others | 2 | 3 | 0 |
£1054 | 5 | 5 |
TABLE III.
Maintenance of meters and governors (proportion) | 34 | 0 | 0 |
Inspector's salary | 200 | 0 | 0 |
£234 | 0 | 0 |