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Whetstone Park 3 compartments, Water Supply laid on.
Shorts Gardens 6 do. do. do.
Bernard Mews 3 do. Water not laid on.
Caroline Mews 1 do. do. do.
Chenies Mews, south 1 do. do. do.
Colonnade 1 do. do. do.
Hunter Mews 1 do. do. do.
Nottingham Court 1 do. do. do.
Southampton Mews 2 do. do. do.
The public urinal in Brewer Street, being strongly complained
of by some of the inhabitants of adjacent properties,
was closed temporarily with the view of ascertaining
if its permanent removal would be likely to cause much
nuisance or inconvenience. Observation was made of the
site for several weeks afterwards, but no complaint has
been made of its being closed, nor has any nuisance been
observed to arise in consequence.
Public Lighting.
The work of substituting the new improved circular
street lamps for those of the old square pattern was proceeded
with during the year; the total number of these
lamp-posts and lanterns erected in the District at Lady
Day, 1883, was 403.
The Siemens' Patent Regenerative Gas Burner Lamps
that were fixed in March and April, 1881, on the refuges
opposite to 198, High Holborn, and at the north end of
High Street, not giving satisfaction in consequence of the
light at them being frequently deficient in illuminating
power, and the lamps on many occasions going out of
lighting, the Board gave notice to the patentees to remove
them, and they were accordingly taken away, and other
lamps fitted with Sugg's burners fixed instead,