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The fluid has been issued to the public in pint bottles from the depots
at Old Ford Road, Bickmore Street, and West Ferry Road, and from the
manufacturing depot, Violet Road. For watering the roads, market
places, etc., the Works Department has been furnished with 9,116 gallons,
at a charge of a 1d. per gallon. The Poplar Guardians, for their Institutions
inside and outside the Borough, and the Managers of the Sick
Asylums, Blackwall and Devon's Road, have been supplied with 568
gallons during the last four months of the year's working, for which no
charge has been made.
There have been required 2,543 units of electrical energy at l½d. per
unit, four tons of salt have been used at 24s. per ton, and two tons of
chloride of magnesium, at £3 17s. 6d. per ton, Caustic Soda costing
£4 0s. 8d., water, together with that used for washing out the electrolysers
and for other purposes, £2 15s. 8d., including meter rent.