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works. The total expenditure of the Companies on works,
improvements, &c., to the end of 1889, amounted to £14,630,246'
of which £217,066 was expended during the past year.
GAS.
The subjoined Tables, based on the quarterly reports of
the Chief Gas Examiner, summarize the principal results
(averages) of the daily testings, at the Ladbroke Grove Station,
of the " common gas " manufactured by the Gas Light and
Coke Companv at their Kensal Green Works.

It appears from these results that the average illuminating
power of the gas at the Station was higher than the Parliamentary
standard.
In the Annual Ileport of the late Metropolitan Board of
Works, for 1884, it was stated—as the result of testing with a
portable photometer—that there are parts of London the
inhabitants of which do not always get their gas of the quality
which it was thought had been secured to them by Act of
Parliament; the gas having been frequently found to be
inferior in lighting power to the prescribed standard, sometimes
by as much as one candle. There is no way of preventing
this, the companies in default being subject to 7io forfeiture