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SURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT.
LIGHTING.
New lamps have been erected as under, viz.:—
Column Lamp.—Corner of Thoydon-road and Grove-road.
Ditto South-east corner of Matilda-street, Old Bethnal Green-road.
Ditto Under Wheeler-street Railway Arch.
Bracket Lamp.—Urinal, Clare-street, by the Cambridge-heath Railway
Station.
Ditto Cabbage-court, Brick-lane.
The amount paid to the Gas Light and Coke Company for gas
supplied to 765 public lamps, and St. John's Church clock, including
repairs, &c., was £3,728 16s. 5d. Ditto paid to Commercial Gas
Company for gas supplied to 67 lamps was £268 3s. IId.
The price of gas supplied by the Gas Light and Coke Company was
reduced by them at Christmas last from £4 18s. to £4 13s. 3d. per
lamp per annum.
RE-NAMING AND RE-NUMBERING STREETS.
During the year the following streets have been re-named and
re-numbered in accordance with the orders of the Metropolitan Board
of Works. A register of this work is kept, showing the old and new
numbers and the altered names.
Number of Houses.
Grove-road re-numbered 166
Ellesmere-road ditto 80
Chisenhale-road ditto 80
Auckland-road ditto 67
Vivian-road ditto 56
Warner-place and Warner-place South re-numbered, and renamed
Warner-place throughout 105
Elizabeth-street re-named Rushmead-street 96
Quilter-street re-numbered 86