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FIRE ALARMS.
Additional fire alarms have been fixed by the London
County Council in Regent Street, at the corner of Conduit
Street, and in St. James's Square, at the corner of Charles
Street.
LIGHTING.
The maintenance and painting of the street lanterns
and lamp columns, which were formerly done by the Gas
Company, are now carried out for the Vestry by contract
The contractors, for the first part of the year, were Messrs.
S. Pontifex & Co., of 22, Coleman Street, E.C., and the last,
Messrs. R. and J. Shiers, of 5, King Street, Regent,
Street, W.
One new lamp has been fixed, and one shifted, in both
Bridle Lane and Crown Court (Pall Mall).
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.
Repairs have been carried out to the sewers in King's
Arms Yard, Cork Mews, Ingestre Place, and Jermyn Street.
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.