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Removal of Dust and Ashes.
The dust and ashes have been removed from the houses in the
District by contract, at a cost of £1,775.
Lime-washing Courts, &c.
The entrances to the mews, yards, courts, &c., in the District were
twice limewhited daring the year, at a cost of £64.
Public Urinals.
The urinals belonging to the Board that have continued in use are
the same as in the previous year, with the exception of one in Bedford
Head Yard.
A list of these urinals was given in last year's Report. Those that
are now in use are 19 in number, and contain 47 compartments. Nine
of the urinals, containing 33 compartments, have water laid on to
them; the others are without water. The whole of the urinals are
cleansed daily by the Board's workmen.
They were painted once during the year, at a cost of about £lo.
Public Lighting.
The subject of public lighting received much attention from your
Board, the average meter system being specially considered by you.
Your Surveyor reported at length on this matter on 17th May, 1876,
and your Board ultimately resolved, on the 18th July, 1876, not to
adopt that system for the present, but to watch for some time longer
the results of the system in adjoining districts where it had been
adopted; and meanwhile, with the view to improve the lighting of its
District, to make the following alterations in its own arrangements,
viz.:
lstly. To reduce the number of lighting hours from 4,320 hours per
annum, which was the number it had been for some years paying for,
to 3,940 hours per annum.
2ndly. To adopt five-feet burners to all the lamps in the District,
removing those of less size, and substituting five-feet burners for them.
3rdly. The adoption of a new lamp-post and lantern of less height
than those previously in use, and of a pattern of lantern which the
Board selected, and which was believed to allow a better light to be
thrown on to the streets and with less shadow, than the old lanterns.
4thly. By a rearrangement of the lamps in the District, some of the
public ways being found very liberally supplied with lamps, while
others were very scantily furnished with them.
The reduced consumption of gas, owing, to the lesser number of
lighting hours, was estimated by your Surveyor to effect a saving of