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ordinary street lamps (485 burning cannel gas, and 218
burning common gas), 4 were urinal lamps, and 21 were
larger lamps attached to refuges.
On the 25th March, 1887, the number of lamps was 771,
showing an increase of 43 in the twelve months; the proportion
of different lamps is now 458 cannel gas street lamps,
286 common gas street lamps, 4 urinal lamps, and 23 refuge
lamps. The ordinary street lamps are lighted, extinguished,
cleaned, and maintained by the Gas Company under an
arrangement with the Vestry ; the agreed sum is £2 8s. 4d.
per annum each either for cannel or common gas, 2½ft. of
cannel gas being supplied per lamp per hour, and 3ft. of
common gas. Larger street lamps are charged for at a proportionate
price, but as regards the refuge lamps, payment is
made according to the consumption of gas as registered by
meter. The total cost of street lighting for the past year
amounted to £2,433 12s. 9d., as compared with £2,295 8s. 8d.
for the previous twelve months. This sum is exclusive of
new lamp-posts, lanterns and fittings, which cost a further
sum of £265 10s. 9d.
It will be seen from the above figures that a considerable
addition has been made to the number of lamps, necessarily
accompanied by some increase in the cost. This increased
expenditure is entirely due to the extra lamps erected at
Piccadilly Circus and in Shaftesbury Avenue, and represents
a portion of the annual cost to the parishioners of the
Piccadilly Improvement, which was carried out by the
Metropolitan Board of Works.
The increased cost of street lighting, however, is considerably
less than proportionate with the additional
number of lamps taken into lighting, owing to an
economy which has been effected by a re-arrangement
of the hours of lighting. The ordinary street