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REPORT, 1891-92.
pleting a large building to be used as a District Sorting
Office, with a subway under London Street to the
arrival platform of Paddington Station.
A large factory building has been erected on sites
of late Nos. 225 and 227, Harrow Road, abutting on
Marlborough Street, for Mr. C. Fox.
In a private yard at the rear of houses on the
West side of Bravington Road, buildings one storey
high have been built by Mr. Seaman, to be used for
laundry purposes.
In addition to the above buildings, one hundred
and fifty-eight houses have been erected and the
drainage thereof carried out in accordance with
submitted plans and orders of Vestry, under the
direction of the Officers of my Department.
LIGHTING DEPARTMENT.
The number of public lamp columns and bracket
lamps in lighting on the 25th March last was 2,017.
They each consume 4.6 cubic feet per hour. The
number of refuge and corner lamps and candle-power
will be found on page 118.
The Gas Company have been served with 108
notices during the year for the rectification of defective
service pipes, &c.