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total number of the new lamp-posts and lanterns in the
district at Lady Day, 1884, was 604.
Street Refuges.
No additional street crossing refuges were formed during
the year. The number now existing in the St. Giles
District is as follows:—
In Bloomsbury Street south end, by Broad Street
„ Broad Street west of Endell Street
Do. east of Endell Street
Do. by Drinking Fountain
„ Endell Street north end, by Broad Street
„ Guilford Street west end, by Russell Square
„ High Holborn by Little Queen Street
Do. at junction with New Oxford Street
„ High Street north end, by New Oxford Street
„ New Oxford Street east of its junction with Bloomsbury St.
Do. west of its junction with Bloomsbury St.
Do. by Hart Street
Do. by Thorney Street
Do. west end, by Tottenham Court Road
„ Theobald's Road west end, by Southampton Row
„ Tottenham Court Rd. south end, by New Oxford Street.
They are all well lighted, and afford great assistance tc
pedestrians in crossing the carriage-ways.
Improvements.
A small improvement was effected in the public way of
Gate Street on its south side, by setting back a portion of
the line of frontage (40 feet in length), of No. 1, Prince's
Square, which projected 2 feet beyond the general line of
frontage. The amount to be paid to the owner of the