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supplied to 773 public lamps and St. John's Church clock, including
repairs, &c., was £3582 8s. 2d.
The amount paid to Commercial Gas Company for gas supplied to
67 public lamps was £278 8s. 0d.
Lamps have been removed from Abbey-place, Wilmot-grove, and
St. Peter's-square.
RE-NAMING AND RE-NUMBERING STREETS.
The streets hereunder have been altered in accordance with the
orders of the Metropolitan Board of Works. A register is kept of
this work, which shows the old and new numbers, and the altered
names:—
Number of
houses.
Globe-street, re-named Globe-road, and re-numbered 65
Antill-road, re-numbered 93
Several patent enamelled iron name plates have been put up in
various streets in lieu of the old painted tin ones.
Orders have been given for one gross of street name lamp tablets,
but up to the present they have not been received.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The sum of £297 6s. 9d. has been paid to the East London Water
Works Company for water used in watering the roads, including the
sum of £31 10s. 0d. for use of meters fixed in the various stand posts
throughout the Parish.
Two new hydrants have been erected; one at the corner of Butlerstreet
and Knottisford-street, and one at Gore-road. The hydrant in
Grove-road has been removed for the convenience of tramway traffic,
and refixed at the expense of the Company at the corner of Groveroad
and Thoydon-road.
The public urinals in Teesdale-street, Treadway-street, Clare-street,
Cabbage-court, Cambridge-road, the ironwork of Twig Folly bridge,
the obelisks, Old Ford-road, Grove-road, and Hackney-road, have
been re-painted by men in the employ of the Vestry.