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The Board provided the whole of the carts and tans.
The mileage of roads watered was as follows:—
Division
Miles.
Yards.
Parish of Lewisham
61
56
Hamlet of Penge
12
900
Total Lewisham District
63
956
STREET LIGHTING.
In the Parish of Lewisham, the lamps are supplied with gas,
lighted, extinguished, cleaned and painted by the South Metropolitan
Gu Company and the Crystal Palace District Gas Company.
The former Company supplies 816 ordinary lamps, 20 special
lamps; and one at the "White Hart" urinal, paid for jointly by
the Hoard and Messrs. Whitbread; and the latter 871 ordinary
and 19 special lamps.
The Hamlet of Penge is supplied entirely by the Crystal
Palace District Gas Company—376 ordinary and 18 special lamps
being in use.
The prices paid the Companies remain the same as paid the
last two years, namely, £3 3s. 9d. per lamp per annum to the
South Metropolitan Gas Company, and £3 2s. 10d. to the Crystal
Palace District Gas Company. These prices are both subject to
5 per cent. discount for cash within one mouth.
In laying kerb in new streets, and also to improve the lighting,
41 lamps were removed in the Parish of Lewisham and one
in the Hamlet of Penge.
New special Lamps were fixed in the High-street, at the
corner of Ladywell-road, and in Ellerdale-street, in substitution
for ordinary lamps.
In the Hamlet of Penge special lamps were erected in
Thicket-road, near Lullington-road, aud in Beckenham-road, near
Crampton-road, 2 ordinary lamps were discontinued and 6 removed.
The following new ordinary Lamps were erected:—