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made application to your Board to be allowed to place a
number of the Wenham lamps on public lamp-posts in
the District. The matter was referred to your Works
Committee, who, after consideration, recommended that
the company be allowed at their own expense to fix two of
their lamps for experimental piirposes, one on the refuge
in High Holborn, east of Little Queen Street, and the
other on the refuge at the junction of New Oxford Street
and Shaftesbury Avenue, which lamps were fixed in April,
1896, and still remain. No alteration has been made
during the year to the other lamps in the District, the
total number of which is 1,160, made up as under :—
Lamp-posts with well lanterns 729
Ditto with square lanterns 155
Old lamp-posts with square lanterns 13
Metered lamps on street-crossing refuges 12
Bracket lamps with well lanterns 147
Ditto with old square lanterns 104
Total 1,160
The amount paid for gas, including the lighting and
extinguishing, cleansing and maintenance of the lanterns,
was £4,088 8s. lOd.
Street Orderly Bins, &c.
Several additional street orderly bins and ballast
bins have been erected during the year. The total
number now in the District is given on page 61.
St. Giles Churchyard.
This continues to be largely used by the poorer classes
in the neighbourhood as a place of rest, and is evidently