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the Parish better lighted, and as the cost of lighting and extinguishing
costs this parish £76115s., if the plan of other parishes
be adopted, the cost would be—10 men for 1000 lamps at 21/equals
£546, thus saving more than £200 a year on lighting, &c.
As St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, saves 13½ per cent., St. George's,
Hanover Square, 8½ per cent., by the average meter system it is
confidently hoped that there would be a minimum of 12 per cent,
saved, or £450 out of £3,800 now spent.
A reference to the Annual Report of the Vestry of Paddington
on Public Lighting shows a gain of 8,132,555 cubic feet of gas by
the average meter system, over the scale or contract system during
the year 1885-86, a saving equal to £1,015 13s. on gas alone. In
Paddington the average meter system has been in use for 13 years.
Paddington has 1,910 lamps, each lamp burning 3,877 hours
a, year.
Fulham „ 1,020 „ „ „ 3,745 „
a year.
A reference to the Annual Report alluded to will well repay
perusal; further, the Clerk to the Vestry of Paddington has kindly
offered to give any help that lies in his power, should this parish
decide to adopt the average meter system.
It would be of the greatest importance to appoint a subcommittee
of the Works Committee to be a Public Lighting
Committee.
Your obedient Servant,
J. EDWIN COONEY,
Chairman of Sub-Committee to enquire into the Lighting
of the Parish.
December 1st, 1886.
On the 2nd of February, 1887, the Vestry received the
report in question, and on the 16th February, 1887, the report
was passed, and referred back to the Works Committee to
appoint a Public Lighting Committee. At the meeting of that
Committee on the 16th of February, 1887, Dr. Cooney, and Messrs.
Hutchinson, Davey, Stiles, and Hunt, were appoined such Public
Lighting Committee.
WATER.
The parish is supplied with water by the West Middlesex Water
Works Company, and the Chelsea Water Works Company, the
district supplied by the former being that portion of the parish
which lies north of Crab Tree Lane and Crown Road, including
the north and south sides of Lillie Road, the district supplied by
the latter being the remaining portion of the parish of Fulham.