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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 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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TABLE I .
| Supplying 48 14-inch lamps and 48 14-inch cradle irons: 1 18-inch lamp and chair iron; 15 bracket irons and fittings; 48 ¾-inch bends; 36 ½-inch stand pipes; 144 3/8-inch spindles and 6 cones; 6 dozen wedges; 2 gross steatite burners; 10 dozen lever cocks; 3 dozen pipe hooks; 6 gross washers; 3 wire cages and 14 30 c.-p. burners | 86 | 6 | l |
| 140 opal tablets | 6 | 15 | 4 |
| 25 octagon columns | 49 | 17 | 1 |
| Tools | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Erecting 10 new lamp columns, re-arranging the positions of 7, removing of 5 discontinued and re-instating foot and carriageways disturbed, and re-instating footways to 9 bracket lamps, and ground disturbed in removing defective fittings | 16 | 9 | 0 |
| Wages, fitting up new lamps, fixing new standpipes, street nameand caution tablets | 29 | 18 | 6 |
| Lamplighters'wages for large lamps | 170 | 6 | 0 |
| Materials and labour, re-pairing, painting, and glazing 202 large lamps and columns, and painting guard posts at refuges | 45 | 11 | 4 |
| Smiths' work, re-pairing lamp irons, &c. | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| Removal of lamp services | 13 | 6 | 4 |
| Fittings for disinfecting rooms | 1 | 6 | 9 |
| 2 reflecting lamps and fittings fixed at De Beauvoir Wharf, and 2 lamps and brackets fixed at Reliance Wharf | 20 | 15 | 0 |
| Sundry fittings for Town Hall and Offices | 1 | 14 | 1 |
| £446 | 7 |
TABLE II.
| Materials and labour for repairing, painting and glazing 14-inch ordinary lamps, columns, brackets, standpipes, &c. | 151 | 5 | 3 |
| Lamplighters' wages | 935 | 19 | 10 |
| do. for holiday | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| Reward to police constables and others | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| £1094 | 2 | 1 |