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Underground Telephone Wires.
On the application of the National Telephone Company,
to lay cast-iron pipes to contain telephone cables beneath
certain public-ways in the District, permission was granted
by your Board on certain conditions which were embodied
in an agreement entered into between the Company and
the Board. The Company proceeded to lay the mains
during the month of October in High Holborn, Broad
Street, and Shaftesbury Avenue, extending from the eastern
boundary of the District to the subway in Shaftesbury
Avenue belonging to the London County Council, with a
branch at Endell Street leading up to and along Bloomsbury
Street, Bedford Square, and Gower Street as far as
to the boundary of the St. Giles' District.
The following information with respect to the St.
Giles District may be of interest
Its superficial area is about 245 acres.
Leigth of public ways, 15 miles 7 furlongs.
Total length of public and private ways, 16 miles.
The superficial area of carriage-ways is 47 acres, 1 rood, 247 yards.
Do. do. footways is 24 do. 0 do. 321 do.
The total area of public-ways 71 do. 1 do. 568 do.
Total number of public lamps 1,182
Do. iron guard-posts 323
Do. granite do. 32
Do. trees 160
Do. do. guards 153
Do. water-posts 11
Do. street gullies 1,135
Do. sewer air-shafts to local sewers opening
on to the street surface 247
Do. do. do. to main sewers do. do. do. 55
Do. air shafts to local sewers carried up
the fronts of adjacent buildings 19