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BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.
The Vestry of the Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch,
IN THE COUNTY OF LONDON.
REPORT OF THE LIGHTING ENGINEER.
Lighting Department,
25th March, 1898
Gentlemen,
PUBLIC STREET LIGHTING.
I have much pleasure in presenting the following Annual Report and tables
showing the work done by this department.
The price of gas supplied to the Public Lamps is 2/3 per 1,000 cubic feet.
No alteration has been made in the price of gas during the past four years.
The total amount paid for gas, lamplighter's wages, lighting, extinguishing
cleaning and for fitters and materials used for repairs and painting for the year,
including the provision of twenty additional lamps and fittings, 260 improved lamps
of increased illuminating power, fixed at refuges and in position where increased
light was required, and the removal and re-arrangement of the positions of 37 lamps,
amounted to £6,234 16s. 7d.
Twenty additional lamps have been fixed and put in lighting during the
year, 160 have been discontinued, and removed to stores and the positions of 37 have
been altered.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
67 public arc lamps, and 132 incandescent public lamps of 32 candle power, are
in use in the following streets. The arc lamps are switched off half an hour after
midnight, and the incandescent lamps are then switched on until daybreak.
High Street Pitfield Street Kingsland Road
Gt. Eastern Street New North Road Bethnal Green Road
Old Street