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per mile per annum, and the watering effected under contract with
Mr. G. F. Stevens at £80 per annum.
It was intended to have watered a portion of the roads at Sydenham,
but the difficulty of obtaining a supply of water (the Lambeth
Waterworks Company having declined to provide it), and the great
length of the roads requiring watering, and the consequent expense
involved, deterred the Board from carrying out the intention.
Power is given to them under the same section (116) to erect
pumps for the gratuitous supply of water to the inhabitants, and
they have erected two adjoining the high road at Rushey Green,
where considerable inconvenience has been felt by the poorer classes
from the private wells, which were only a few feet deep, having
become dry since the construction of the sewers there. The public
wells over which the pumps were erected were previously open and
very dangerous.
LIGHTING.
Lewisham Village was, early in the year 1855, lighted with gas,
under the management of Lighting Inspectors appointed under the
Act of 3rd and 4th Wm. IV., c. 90. The portion of the parish
lighted was from the Sydney Arms, in Lewisham Road, or Limekiln
Lane, along the road in an easterly direction to the Lewisham
Railway Station, thence along the road in a southerly direction to
the premises occupied by Mr. Alexander Rowland; and 46 columns
were erected for lighting such length of road.
The Vestry, under the power vested in them by the Act for that
purpose, fixed £160 as the amount the Inspectors should be authorized
to expend in any one year. This was raised by a rate of 5d.
in the pound on the property adjoining the road lighted.
The sum thus authorized was manifestly insufficient to meet the
necessary outlay for the purchase of columns, and £120 was advanced
for the purpose by John Penn, Esq., to be repaid by instalments
from time to time, out of any annual surplus the Inspectors
might have in hand.
The columns and lamps, as well as the gas, were supplied under
contracts with the Phoenix Gas Company, the columns, lamps, &c,.
at £3 each; the gas as under :—
£3 for the winter 8 months for each lamp lighted from sunset
until one o'clock in the morning;
£1 extra beyond the above for every winter 8 months for each
lamp lighted from one o'clock in the morning until sunrise;
and
£1 extra beyond both the above for every lamp kept lighted
from sunset to sunrise for the summer 4 months.
The following is an account of the receipts and expenditure of the
Inspectors from their appointment until the 30th December, 1855: