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the eight disused lamps at Piccadilly Circus were again
taken into lighting; and the light in the lamp in Piccadilly,
by Piccadilly Place, was increased from 2½ feet to 5 feet per
hour. The cost of repairing the refuge lamps, providing
and fixing rew lamps and posts, and alterations to old lamps,
was £143.
SEWERS.
In the month of October the 3ft. 9in. by 2ft. 6in. eggshaped
brick sewer running along Cambridge Street and the
west end of Broad Street was rebuilt under contract by Mr.
Joseph Mears, of Hammersmith, at a total cost to your
Vestry of £850 0s. 7d.
Several of the small subsidiary sewers running under
the vaults of the houses in Regent Street have been partially
blocked. In each case the stoppage was removed, and
where found necessary the old barrel drain destroyed and
earthenware pipes substituted.
The cost of repairing sewers, bricking up old disused
drains, new side entrance covers, &c., has amounted to the
sum of £135 10s. 7£d. for the year.
GULLIES.
Forty-nine gullies have been reconstructed, and seventeen
altered, or repaired, as found necessary, at a cost of £1711
15s. 4d. Those reconstructed are situate as follows:—
Argyll Place 4
Argyll Street 4
Berwick Street 1
Brewer Street 1
Carlton Street 1
Chapel Court 1
Charles Street 2
Crown Court (Pall Mall)
2
Denman Street 2
George Court (Cross Street) 1
Haymarket 1
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