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STREET LIGHTING.
On the 25th March, 1896, there were 822½ public lamps
in the various thoroughfares of the Parish, and this number,
in consequence of the adoption of electric light in the
main thoroughfares of the parish, was decreased by 80
during the year. At Lady-day, 1897, there were 716
ordinary street lamps, and 26½ metered lamps attached to
urinals, refuges, &c., making a total of 742½. The cost
of lighting 3 lamps on refuges in the Haymarket is borne
equally between this Vestry and the Vestry of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields. This accounts for the ½-lamp just
referred to.
The ordinary street lamps consume 5ft. of gas per hour,
and are lighted, extinguished, and cleaned by the Gas Company
at an inclusive sum of £2 19s. 4d. per lamp per
annum. As regards the refuge lamps, payment is made
according to the consumption of gas as registered by meter.
The total expenditure for street lighting (gas and electric)
during the past year amounted to £2,871 10s. 3d., as
compared with £2,965 6s. 4d. for the previous twelve
months. This sum is exclusive of maintenance, repairs
and new lamp-posts, lanterns and fittings, which involved
further payments amounting to £482 10s. 4d. net.
PRIVATE LAMPS.
The Vestry some years since decided not to permit the
erection of private lamps except upon the following
conditions:—
1. That no part of such Lamps shall be less than 10 feet in
height from the public footway.
2. That no such Lamps shall in any case project further than
the inside of the kerb bounding the footway.