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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
Westminster 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]
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xxvi.
FIRE ENGINE STATION.
Howick Place, Victoria Street.
Fire Escapes are also kept at this Station; at St. Peter's Church,
Eaton Square; St. Gabriel's Church, Warwick Square; Knightsbridge
Green; Regent Place, Horseferry Road; and at night-time
in front of Westminster Hospital, Broad Sanctuary.
Floating Fire Appliances are moored at the Old Pimlico Pier,
Grosvenor Road, S.W, and by the Charing Cross Railway Bridge
The nearest Fire Engine Station to the Knightsbridge Ward is at
Relton Mews, Chapel Place, and Montpelier Street.
GAS COMPANY.
The Gas Light & Coke Company—Chief Office, Horseferry Rd., S.W.
Secretary and General Manager—Mr. John Orwell Phillips.
Distributing Engineer—Mr. Robert Harris.
WATER COMPANIES.
Chelsea Waterworks Company—Office, Commercial Road, Pimlico.
Office Hours 10 to 5 o'clock.
Secretary—Mr. Geo. Hy. Gill. Superintendent—Mr. Alfred Gregory.
Surveyor—Mr. F. T. Husband.
Turncocks and Assistants.
Joseph Cotton, 25, Marsham Street, Westminster.
William Roberts, 3, Great Smith Street, Westminster.
Charles Harrison, 12, Montpelier Place, Brompton Road.
George Hilton, 33, Vincent Street, Vincent Square.
George Keem, 6, Rutland Street, Montpelier Square.
John Querney, 34, Cobourg Row, Westminster
Rewards are paid by the Company to persons who call Turncocks
in case of fire.
Grand Junction Waterworks Company—Offices, 65, South Molton
Street, W. Office Hours, 10 to 4 o'clock.
Secretary—Mr. Ernest Oswald Coe.
West Middlesex Waterworks Company—Office, 19, Marylebone
Road, adjoining Marylebone Church, N.W.
Secretary—Mr. George Barton Hall
Superintendent of Supplies—Mr. Walter Willis.
Turncocks.
James Butler
20, Kensington Court Place.
John Adams, jun.
District Inspector—Mr. R. A. Ellison Poysey, Kensington Place,
Notting Hill Gate.
CORONER.
City and Liberties of Westminster—John Troutbeck, Esq., M.A.,
B.C.L., 11 Victoria Street, S.W.
Deputy Coroner—Henry Ernest Barnes, Esq., 11, Victoria Street,
S.W.
Coroner's Officer—Tom Ralph, 17, Charlwood Place, Pimlico, SAY.,
to whom applications for Coroner's Inquests are to be made