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TABLE I.
Shewing Monthly Averages of the Illuminating Power and
Sulphur of the Gas supplied by the Wandsworth and Putney Gas
Company during the year ended jist March, 1907.
Date.
illuminating Power
in Standard
Sperm Candles.
Grains of Sulphur in
100 cubic feet of gas.
April,
1906
14.7
25.3
May,
„
14.5
25.4
June,
„
14.5
24.3
July,
„
I4.6
26.0
August,
„
14.6
27.0
September,
„
14-9
23.4
October,
„
14.6
22.2
November,
„
14.9
25.6
December,
„
14.9
24.8
January,
1907
14.8
24.1
February,
„
14.9
25.7
March,
„
14.9
28.0
Average for the year ended 31st
March, 1907
14.7
24.6
The standard illuminating power of the gas supplied by this
Company is 15 candles. No tests for sulphur imWimbiedond
purities are made. Sulphuretted hydrogen must be
Gas Company. abSent. The limit of pressure is not defined. The
gas is tested at the works. Here the usual fortnightly tests were
made and, in Table 2, I have given the results of all tests made
during the year ended 31st March, 1907.
The average for the year was i6'o candles, with a maximum
Illuminating 0f i6"q and a minimum of is'i candles.
Power. J
There was no sulphuretted hydrogen present at any time in
Sulphuretted the £fas
Hydrogen. 6
The minimum pressure was 2'g inches of water, while the
maximum pressure reached 4*8 inches, with a total
Pressure. r .r> • i
average ot 3 8 inches.
A Bill was brought before Parliament by the Company in
Recent March, which, owing to certain proposed clauses
Legislation. jn connection with the testing and for other reasons,
was opposed by the Wandsworth Borough Council and others.