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CITY AND SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY EXTENSION.
I submitted a report on the proposals of the City and South London
Railway, in connection with further works for which they applied
to Parliament this session for powers to carry out in Borough High
Street, and made certain recommendations as to the proper protection
of the interests of this Parish, in connection with temporary openings
which the Company required to make in this important thoroughfare.
DRINKING TROUGHS.
During the year the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association
have placed, with the consent of the Vestry, a horse trough and
drinking fountain at St. George's Circus, and a horse trough at Old
Kent Road, opposite the Deaf and Dumb Asylum.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sixty-one licenses for opening trenches and erecting hoardings,
&c., have been issued, and the work measured and brought into
account.
1,133 Orders have been issued to contractors and tradesmen, for
work, materials, &c., which have been checked and supervised, and
the accounts examined and certified, and presented to the several
Committees.
STREET LIGHTING.
Experiments have been continued by the South Metropolitan
Gas Co., with lighting the ordinary Street Lanterns with Incandescent
Burners, but the result does not appear to be very satisfactory.
Considerable advance has, however, been made, and improvements
effected in the appliances which tend to minimise the vibration and
also to lengthen the life of the mantles in the lamps on the public
highways. A two-burner Incandescent gas lamp has recently been
fixed in Borough High Street, opposite St. George's Church, which
I think will probably give very good results, and provide increased
light at less cost than the ordinary two or three burner lamp.