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I beg to repeat here an observation made in my last annual report,
viz., that, however satisfactory the reports of the chief Gas
Examiner, it would be well if an arrangement could be effected
to obtain systematic records of pressure at all hours of the day and
night, and at several points in the Company's District within the
Parish.
No complaint was received from any private consumer in respect
of the illuminating power of the gas, in 1881, and I understand
that Mr. Philip Monson, your Vestry's Superintendent of Street
Lighting, is satisfied with the quality of the gas as supplied to the
public lamps. The burners now in use are calculated to consume
gas at the rate of 4.5 cubic feet per hour, whereas the burners
formerly in use, originally provided when Cannel gas was employed,
consumed only three feet per hour; but notwithstanding the
increased consumption of gas (50 per cent.) and the consequent
improvement in the lighting of the public thoroughfares, the cost
is not greater than under the old system of a fixed annual payment
per lamp.
Conclusion. It now only remains for me to discharge the
pleasing duty of thanking those who have contributed by their
assistance to whatever success may have attended the work of my
Department during the past year.
Of the sympathetic co-operation of the Board of Guardians I
have already spoken, and it would be impossible to over-rate the
importance of the assistance rendered by them, and their officers,
in measures for preventing the spread of infectious diseases.
The sub-district Registrars, Messrs. Barnes and Hume, and
the Vaccination Officer, Mr. Shattock, have, as usual, very willingly
complied with all my requests for information.
The Members of the Sanitary Staff have discharged their
numerous duties with zeal, intelligence, and success.