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The Board of Works for the Lewisham District.
STATEMENT OF QUESTION.
Grove Place, Lewisham,
21st October, 1874.
Mr. Heisch is requested to report to the Board on a question
which has arisen between them and the Phoenix Gas Company;
and which may be shortly stated as follows:—
Whether the Board may be reasonably required—having
regard as well to the interests of the public in the vicinity of
the Company's Gas Works supplying this District, as to that
of the gas consumers within the District—to agree with the
Company upon any other or different test by which to
ascertain the purity of the gas, or to vary the amount of
ammonia or sulphur in any form in pursuance of the provisions
of the 25th Sec. of the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860.*
The circumstances under which the question has arisen are
as follows, and although the question at issue is not anywhere
precisely stated (see the Company's letter of 30th July, as
quoted on the Board's Minutes), it is assumed to be whether
the amount of sulphur should be allowed to be increased from
the maximum prescribed by the Act above-mentioned, viz.:—
20 grains in 100 cubic feet of gas.
† Mr. Heisch reported to the Board on the 5th May, 1874,
that the quality of the gas supplied by the Company on that
day was as follows:—
Illuminating power - - - 16 candles
Sulphuretted Hydrogen - - None
Ammonia ------ None
Sulphur, on 5th and 6th - - 31.5 grains in 100
cubic feet
* Note.—See Appendix, page 29, for copy Section.
† The Report referred to was made by Mr. Heisch in his capacity as Gas
Examiner for the Lewisham District, to which office he was appointed on the
12th February, 1874.