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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The cost for current trimming and maintenance charged for the three quarters
amount to £1682 12s. 11d,
85 more public arc lamps and 170 incandescent lamps are on order, and will
soon be erected in the following streets.
Kingsland Road New North Road Bridport Place
Hoxton Street East Road
167 consumers' private premises have been wired and fitted for the electric
light, with an equivalent of 25,698 eight candle power lamps, including 70 arc lamps
and 327 horse power motors. 86 premises have been wired and fitted for the electric
light, with an equivalent to 5,840 eight candle power lamps, including 3 horse power
motors and 38 arc lamps, by the Vestry's staff of wiremen, at a cost of £3,648 15s. 8d.
or labour and materials, repaid to the Vestry by the consumers.
COST OF NEW WORKS AND MATERIALS FOR THE YEAR.
£ | s. | d. | |
---|---|---|---|
Macfarlane & Co., supplying eight electric columns and two brackets | 72 | 18 | 5 |
The General Electric Co., lamp shades and fittings | 104 | 11 | 0 |
Thames Iron Works Co., erecting and fitting one arc column | 1 | 7 | 6 |
Works Department, reinstating foot and carriageways around lamp columns | 39 | 17 | 0 |
French Asphalte Co., reinstating Asphalte footways around lamp columns | 1 | 14 | 0 |
Reason & Co., waterproof switches for street lamps | 5 | 17 | 6 |
Gas Light Co., removing services | 26 | 6 | 0 |
Now River Co., removing water mains, for fixing electric columns | 12 | 10 | 9 |
Cohen, lamp globes | 1 | 0 | 8 |
Parry, tools | 2 | 15 | 1 |
Ell & Co., ladders, steps and hire of materials for repairs | 11 | 14 | 0 |
Trestles and boards | 6 | 8 | 6 |
Clark & Hunt, ironmongery | 4 | 11 | 6 |
Parkinson, lever cocks and gas governors | 18 | 16 | 0 |
Sugg & Co., burners and glasses | 4 | 16 | 0 |
Tilley, lamps and fittings | 95 | 12 | 9 |
Evered & Co., fittings | 24 | 10 | 9 |
Nicholl's & Clark, glass and paint | 49 | 9 | 8 |
G. Smith, rubber stamps | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Dr. Oliver, medical fee | 0 | 10 | 6 |
W . Gibbs, street name tablets | 1 | 4 | 0 |
£488 | 13 | 5 |