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Wandsworth 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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LIGHTING.
In the Parish of Clapham 28 ordinary lamps, 3 lamps
burning 10 feet per hour, and 1 obelisk lamp to burn
20 feet of gas per hour, have been added ; 26 lamps have
been shifted in position.
In the Parish of Putney 6 lamps have been added and
3 lamps removed and refixed in the district of the
Wandsworth Gas Company; 2 lamps have been added in
the district of the Brentford Gas Company.
In the Parish of Streatham 23 ordinary street lamps
have been added during the year, making the total
number 1,020. The Board have decided that in future
all lamps lighted by the Mitcham Gas Company shall be
kept burning from sunset to sunrise and not extinguished
at midnight as heretofore.
In the Parish of Wandsworth 36 new lamps have been
erected during the last year by the Wandsworth and
Putney Gas Company. The total number of lamps
lighted with gas in the parish is 997.
The number of lamps in each parish, and the charges
for lighting, are shown in the following table:—