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COAL PLATES.
During the past twelve months sixty-two coal plates were
cut into the paving.
STREET NAMES.
The sum of £10 8s. 3d. has been expended in purchasing
and fixing street name-plates.
LIGHTING.
Twenty-nine lamps of improved construction have been
fixed in the following streets, viz.:—Poland Street, Naylor's
Yard, Piccadilly, Little Pulteney Street, St. James's Place,
Rupert Street, Marshall Street, Ganton Street, Noel Street,
Portland Street, King Street (St. James's), Pall Mall Place,
Pall Mall (Opera Colonnade).
On the 15th February last the whole of the burners in the
ordinary lamps were altered, so as to increase the consumption
of gas inthose burning cannel gas from 2½ cubic feet to
4 cubic feet, and in those burning common gas from 3 cubic
feet to 5 cubic feet per hour. The improvement in the light
in the streets is very marked after the shops are closed.
The refuge lamps are furnished with a "midnight arrangement,"
and a man is employed by your Vestry to light,
extinguish, and clean these lamps and those in the urinals,
and also to reduce the light at 12 o'clock at night.
SEWERS.
In Russell Yard (Cleveland Row) and at the rear of No.
161, Regent Street, and the adjoining houses, the sewers,
small brick barrels, which had become very defective, were
removed, and earthenware pipes laid in lieu thereof. A