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BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
A Builder's yard has been formed at the rear of
houses no the West side of Braving ton Road, near the
Harrow Road, no which has been erected workshops,
stores, and stabling.
There has also been erected during the year,
principally. in new roads at the North-western end of
the Parish, seventy-three private houses, one parsonagehouse,
and three ordinary stable and coach-houses.
Notices under the 76th Section of the Metropolis
Local Management Act, together with plans showing
the proposed drainage of the various new buildings,
as above stated, have been received by the Vestry, who
passed the usual orders thereon.
All the drains to the new buildings have been
examined and tested with water by the Vestry's
officers before they were covered in.
Lighting Department.
The Gas consumed by the Public Lamps is supplied
by the Gas Light and Coke Company, at 2s. 2d. per
1,000 cubic feet. There are 1,995 ordinary lamps,
each burner estimated to consume 4.6 cubic feet of
gas per hour, and are alight for 3,879.68 hours during
the year, or an average of 10.68 hours per night. The
estimated consumption of gas per lamp, per annum, is
17,846 cubic feet. There are 98 meters attached to
the same number of public lamps, also 51 meters to
the refuge lamps, the indices being taken monthly.