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A new lamp with double burner, consuming 14.4
cubic feet of gasper hour, has been fixed over the urinal
at Austin street,
The total number of lamps is now as follows:—
Gas Light and Coke Company, 899 5 feet lamps.
,, ,, 4 3-light Sugg's lamps.
„ ,, 3 2-light ditto.
Commercial Gas Company, 79 5 feet lamps.
,, ,, 2 3-light Sugg's lamps.
The cost of lighting the following lamps (not included
in the above totals) is paid by the Great Eastern
Railway Company:—
Arundel street 3
Brady street 2
Brick lane 2
Birkbeck street 1
Coventry street 1
Collingwood street 1
Grove passage 1
Morpeth street 1
Nottingham street 3
Old Bethnal Green road 1
Tapp street 1
Three Colt lane 1
West street 1
Wheler street 2
(Lighted day and night).
Total 21
And the cost of street lighting in the district supplied
by the Gas Light and Coke Company, including meter
rents, cleaning, painting, and repairing the lamps, &c.,
amounted to the sum of £3097 16s. 8d.; and the
Commercial Gas Company were paid the sum of
£323 19s. Od. for similar service in their district.
The cost of the gas supplied (including meter rents)
to the Vestry Hall, Mortuary, Digby Street Yard, and
the clock at St. John's Church, was £79 10s. 2d.
Notice has been given by the Gas Light and Coke
Company of their intention, from April 1st, to reduce
the price of gas supplied for street lighting from 2s. 6d.
to 2s. 5d. per 1000 cubic feet. This alteration in price
will reduce the annual cost of lighting by about £80.